Fecking scooters during the school run

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Due to family circs, I've been picking up my nieces and nephews for the past 2 weeks and will be picking them up for the foreseeable future.

The main gate is at the top of a hill, on a quite narrow but quite busy pavement. The road is also quite busy, especially at pick-up time.

Every single day groups kids have been whizzing about on these scooters- IMO it's a case of when an accident happens rather than if.

One child went straight into the back of my legs today and the mother looked as if it was my fault!

AIBU to ask my sister or BIL to raise it with the school? Or to mention it myself?

Prams, bikes, scooters, mobility scooters, cars need I go on?

People generally aren't injured by prams as they travel slowly.

If a pedestrian were injured by a bike or a mobility scooter on a pavement they could potentially take the other party to court.

Do not call me sweetheart, it's just twatish.

Yes it probably is. But a whole lot less twatish than letting your kids loose on scooters with the kind of attitude you've displayed in this thread.

I don't live life on what ifs & maybes

That is generally how people assess risk and ensure that their children are safe.

Yanbu and it's not healthy but incredibly lazy.Would love to know how standing on a scooter and letting it do all the work is healthy in comparison to say walking.

I'm confused, is sweetheart more offensive than love?

Luckily I don't give a fuck about your opinion of me or my awful DC on scooters as you have taken what you wish from my replies to justify your take on scooters & ignored the facts I have given.
I'm out.

My mother in her 70s broke her arm on the school run recently when two mums were so busy texting they let a toddler dart,weave in and out of other parents picking up kids so she ended tripping over him.They turned round,gaped at her spread on the pavement with her glasses in the road and did sfa.A kind dad ended up running across the road and picking her up.They never apologised.

Busy pavements at school throw out time are the last place scooters should be ridden.Utterly selfish( and lazy).

Im quite surprised actually about parents teaching pavement etiquette and safety. If there are houses on the way with driveways, surely the child has to stop at every driveway to make sure that there isn't a car reversing, therefore scootering becomes a pointless exercise.

I have yet to see any child stop at a driveway, I am careful when reversing, but would I see a small child on a scooter? Mmmmm

Lily that's awful. You should threaten to get one of the ambulance chasing compo firms on them, that'd make them take notice.

There are an increasing no of kids doing this on the school run for me too and it does get hazardous as in bits the path in and out is narrow. Not good.

IMO pavement etiquette is getting off and walking the scooter when it is busy, walking down hills not freewheeling down at great speed, stopping at driveways, not asking people to move out of the way and not scooting more than a couple of steps ahead of me.
It's pretty boring as far as my DC are concerned which is why I generally end up carrying the scooters to the park.

As a wobbly disabled person on crutches, there is nothing I love more than indulgent parents who smile as their children zoom at me. I don't blame the children at all, they are usually quite young. I blame the parents who seem to fail to be able to encourage their children to use their legs for, at least, some of the journey. I doubt they are all ill, tired or physically disabled, so why can't they walk?

Agree notso and landrover.

Loads of dropped pavements near me. The whole journey would be "and stop, is there a car? and stop, is there a car?" Etc. etc.

Yes - parents and children should be careful & considerate - but you sound like a bit of a spoilsport - and a bit uptight

Your poor mum Lily. I hope she has a speedy recovery.

Why shouldn't you be constantly looking for cars?!!!

I got knocked down by a child on a scooter in a hospital corridor.

Later I got shot by a child with a nerf gun, which annoyed me even more.

I dodge a child on a scooter most days. Mum is usually a good 10 paces back with a buggy and a younger child but makes zip all attempt to make sure he's not scooting into people. One day I'm not going to get out of his way in time and there Will Be Words.. Pisses me off because its such a common event. The occasional child I don't mind so much

I have to say I do think its evidence of the general entitlement people seem to have now.. I'd have NEVER been allowed to scoot around adults like many children now seem to.

It's not about being a spoilsport more a question of many of us not wanting to see a speeding toddler squashed by a car or scalded by hot coffee or a pensioner knocked down by a speeding scooter etc. It would be very hard to spot if a scooting child goes whizzing in front of your car at high speed. I have seen little ones going very fast towards very main roads and only stopping at the last minute and actually find it so stressful I'm amazed to see a parent happily strolling along a few minutes behind. Driveways are everywhere so there aren't loads of really safe wide stretches of pavement.

I only allow responsible scooting. This means stopping and moving to the side and standing still when cars and pedestrians are spotted.

Complain. Email the head and say what your experience of picking up the kids has been like.

I hate hate hate scooting kids! I'm so fed up of my toddlers being crashed into that if I think it's about to happen I will push the scooter over to protect my children. If your child falls onto the pavent so be it as long as mine doesn't. My children hold my hands and walk nicely.
Yes I know how unreasonable and vile that is, but hey it's a sobering thought lazy scooter mummies. People like me exist, so keep your eyes on your kids and not your phone!

It's pretty much par for the course, but YANBU. I absolutely detest the bloody things.

We have 750 at our urban school. Let's ban scooter and bikes and insist on cars.