To think it wasn't my fault someone's kids fell off their microscooters?!

[PrincessOrElsa]

Our local park has two lanes: one normal and one cycle (though even on the cycle lane, there's a sign saying cycles are meant to make way for pedestrians).

At home time, the the normal lane is always full of groups of secondary school kids walking about 10 abreast. Which doesn't bother me - to make my way round them with my pram, I just move in and out of the 'cycle' lane.

Then suddenly two kids on microscooters came careering down the hill in the cycle lane, and ended up in the bushes when they tried to get around me without stopping.

Their Dad came storming towards me, shouting "because you were in the cycle lane, my kids have just had an accident". After he went past, I swore under my breath briefly, thinking no one could see, but it turned out his wife walking along behind him separately. Then she started shouting "You've just injured my kids love, but whatever!"

I didn't say anything as am not used to being shouted at like that. AIBU to think it's still a path and kids need to take care?! I think as I have a new baby and it's my first time pushing a pram around, I feel a bit sensitive and am making too big a deal!

Parents are twats with no manners.

I detest kids on scooters.

They shouldn't have been scooting that fast to loose control cycle lane or no cycle lane.

I don't care where you are and what you are doing, my son has to look where he's going and scoot round. He's the one on the 'vehicle' not you. I may think 'bloody stupid place to stand' but thats it, ultimately he needs to look where he's going, same if he's running, walking or on his bike.

The children shouldn't have been travelling so fast that they couldn't stop, whatever the obstruction was.

You could have been a small child, a pot hole, a cyclist, an animal, a piece of fallen tree or just about anything else capable of ending up on a random piece of tarmac.

The parents need to teach their children to look ahead and adjust their speed so that they can stop in the distance they can see but it's clearly easier to blame their stupidity on the obstacle.

It was not your fault at all and YANBU.

This is the sign (though I appreciate the kids might not have noticed it).

Not that I would use that sign as an excuse to hang out in the cycle path permanently. I just weave in and out sometimes when all the secondary school kids come out, as it's like Piccadilly Circus.

That's not a cycle lane, it's a mixed use lane and pedestrians have priority.

Nobody should be travelling so fast they can't stop if someone else is in their way.

Funkster sorry. No ithe picture shows a segregated footway/ cycle way. cycles have priority in the cycle lane, and should not go in the pedestrian bit. Pedestrians have priority on the footway bit. That sign saying to give way is only advisory, not strictly a legal sign. Thoug all cyclists should take care and be prepared to give way if necessary ( the ' share nicely, children' sign suggests to me that there's been a bit of argy bargy in the past, and the council got sick of people ringing up to complain about inconsiderate cyclists)

Not that it matters, scooters, according to the Highway Code should be on te footpath, NOT Road or cycle lane, and I believe the scoot ability training they give in schools tells kids on scooters to always give way to pedestrians.

Op you were in a cycle lane, but not in the wrong :)

www.travelshropshire.co.uk/cycle/tips-and-advice/cycle-and-pedestrian-road-signs-and-markings.aspx

Shared footway/ cycleways exist, but that isn't one.

Yanbu. They should have been told to travel more cautiously. I think this all the time when I see kids whizzing along on pavements on scooters ott scateboards. They could quite easily injur themselves or others.

"There aren't many places to scoot unhindered"? Tough luck. You ride them responsibly or not at all - just like anything else in life.

If the scooting kids aren't able to stop when they come up against an obstacle then they are going to fall over unfortunately. The person blocking the cycle lane could just as easily have been a smaller child on a bike.

I bloody hate scooters. YANBU. It was completely the parents' fault.

You should have ran the cheeky cunt over with your pram. Several times.

yanbu - appreciate there aren't many places to scoot but you shouldn't be going so fast on any form of wheels if you cannot react quickly to your given environment/situation, whether it be a car/bike/scooter.

I know it must be so exciting to go super fast on those things but it's just not bloody practical, I wouldn't do 'tour de france' speeds on that kind of path on my bike because of the 'hazards/pedestrians' (and not really capable ) even if it is a cycle lane.

I bloody hate scooters too. Well I hate the ones where the parents let the kids zoom off without any thought for others. I remeber walking to school with a toddler and 5 year old and some kid zooming up behind us, screaming at me to get out of the way. On the pavement He just missed my toddler by inches.

It was an accident, they were kids going a bit fast, didn't expect to see you there and fell into some bushes. I don't think it would have hurt if you had stopped for a few seconds to check that they were ok. Accidents happen, but ignoring two possibly hurt children then muttering under your breath about them is pretty rude.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who is irritated by scooters. I've lost count of the number of times I've had some kid run into me, even in shops, and I've never had an apology from a parent. I'd kill my kids if they behaved like that.

It was in no way the kids I muttered about, it was the Dad after his yelling session.