Six year old cycled into couple

[Itwasntme1]

I wondered if anyone has seen the footage of the sox year old who cycled into the couple walking the dog.

Interested in views on it. I assume the child didn’t know how to stop, so she ploughed on through the couple.

None of the adults covered themselves in glory. The dad should have stoped her and then stopped filming to comfort her. The couple should have checked she was okay, and the man should absolutely not have kicked her bike.

Not in any way excusing the dreadful behaviour of the horrible man, but surely most parents would have caught up with her and told her to wait. He didn’t even know if the couple heard.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-kicks-terrified-six-year-22013795

I'd have given her a hell of a row if she were my daughter

Bloody hell shes only Six years old!

Old enough to know better and learn that you do not ram into people on your bike!
How old do you think children should be before they learn right from wrong?

FGS do you not know any six year olds?

She didn't ram into them, from her POV, she thought she could ride through them.

She's a six year old. That's why she thought that. She didn't think she was ramming them FGS.

Fancy attributing adult motives to a six year old.

I think you may need to calm down @ScreamingBeans

How do you know what she thought?

Fancy attributing adult motives to a six year old.

I wasn't, her dad is a prick, we saw and heard that.

My point was, at 6 years old children should be corrected and know right from wrong. How old should a person be before they learn? We know this particular 6 year old won't ever be taught right from wrong as her dad is an arsehole.

I have a 5 year old niece who knows she's to keep 2 metres away from people in the street just now. She also knows not to try and push through people, that it would be rude and might hurt herself or them.

Old enough to know better and learn that you do not ram into people on your bike!

Yes but with a dad like hers, she might not know. His 'excuse me' isn't a proper 'excuse me', it's a 'get the f* out of the way' attitude. Maybe people usually do and the kid was expecting the same this time.

The dad is completely at fault here, and I say this as a cyclist. He gives the rest of us a very bad name and the story fuels more cyclist-hating by drivers, which in turn puts people like me in danger.

Bikes should always give way to pedestrians on a shared use path, and he should be teaching her that.

His 'excuse me' will be louder to the viewer than to the couple - why hasn't he got a bell?

And seeing him more intent on arguing than comforting his daughter is shocking.

@CallMeRachel she is wobbling/possibly slowing down(as the camera is right on top of her) at 0:14 the dad tells her to keep going! This is not her fault.

Thing is lockdown has created a situation where there is less traffic on the roads and bike sales have gone up massively. People feel emboldened to get out there cycling, often with little cycling experience or road sense and that includes the parents - most of them won’t have been on bikes since they were kids themselves. I’ve seen families with young children who can barely ride heading towards totally inappropriate roads, flat country ones but where cars tear along at 60mph and they think that is safe

While the dad is awful, so are the two dog walkers. Very aggressive.

But they simply aren't. Their reaction is entirely understandable for two people who are shocked and in pain and then have to deal with the idiot who caused it all shouting at them rather than tending to his child. The only thing they may have done wrong was kicking the bike, and even that looks much more like the man pushing it out of the way.

I watched the video, it did look like the couple weren’t aware of the child behind them. The father should have called the girl back, she shouldn’t have been that close. Even if the couple had moved over there still wasn’t room on that path to pass with a 2m gap. Kicking the bike though was just petty.

He didn't kick the bike. He nudged it out of the way with his toe.

6 is old enough to know not to plough into people.

The dad is a lost cause.

Even if they did ignore someone shouting 'excuse me' aggressively (which I would too) they didn't deserve to be rammed into.

It's assault.

I think the couple were rude, it would've taken two seconds to move to the side. They turned round at least once on hearing her bell and the dad saying quite clearly excise me please.
They caused it by being ignorant and entitled and the aggressive way the man then acts he is clearly a twat.
Poor little girl is trying to learn, on a safe place not near a road, a really good pastime for a child instead of being plonked in front of a TV or tablet. Now she will associate her bike with rude people who shouted at her.

I thought that the cyclists were rude and entitled actually. You can’t plough through pedestrians like that, one of my dc is deaf and I dread her being assaulted by entitled cyclists like them.

Lady. Did you watch the same video?

The father was rude. Excuse me (he didn't say please) is not an instruction to part the ways for his precious daughter

What about social distancing?

The father was the twat and I bet the mother is regretting posting it now. Despite defamatory and inflammatory reporting, most people are seeing that

I hope Nottinghamshire Police take action against the parents.

The couple probably did the kid a favour.

She will have learnt something from this.

The dad is in the wrong here. Shouting 'excuse me' doesn't mean that people need to instantly move out of the way, they might not have even heard him.

He could have easily called the child back but instead he let her keep going. What did he think was going to happen?

All adults very poorly behaved.
The fact the parents didn’t realise a 6 yr old shouldn’t be taking her first few bike rides down a narrow track during a time we should be social distancing annoys me.

My take after watching again is that dad is a regular cyclist as per head cam, not some person just out for an occasional bike ride with kids. He has the attitude frequently encountered in that group, that he is the most important person and walkers shouldn't get in his way. We see this particularly on walking tracks in the hills where mountain bikers presume right of way and everyone else should jump out of the way.

He is then encouraging his daughter to assume a similar aggressive stance to himself and is then thoroughly pissed off when people don't just get out of the way. He will be equally as angry with his daughter for not being aggressive enough and shouting "excuse me" too, hence the lack of comforting.

A child shouldn't be out on that type of narrow path with such poor skills. I feel sorry for her as I think her instincts were possibly OK, it's her father's insistence that she keep going that has confused her, hence the hesitance and wobbles.

The couple clearly didn't hear and if it was me, I wouldn't have shifted for a shout of excuse me in that tone anyway.

Whaaaaat?

Talk about a storm in a teacup.

I can't believe there are 218 comments on this thread and a 'news' story.

Basically, in summary, nothing has happened.

HTH

Mind you a jogger at full tilt is far more dangerous than a six year old on a bike, they DO have an attiude problem.

Remember that prat on the bridge near the houses of parliment who knocked that woman over, ran right into her ?.. They never did find him