To think that if it is illegal to use a mobile phone while driving a vehicle, it must be made illegal to push a pram?

[llizzie]

I have just read this on another site which was discussing how the mobile phone is killing conversation.

  ''Saw an incident two days ago: Young mother pushing child in a pushchair was glued to her smart phone, not looking to where she was going. She was heading straight towards a fixed bollard at the side of the footpath. Last few seconds, she saw it, swerved suddenly, child rocked over to the side and hit bollard full face. Stupidity of the highest order. ''

If someone who was distracted on their phone ran into you and injured you, maybe having to be off work, wouldn't you want to do something about it?

I love this report

Its a pretty rare occurence in the scheme of things, although someone ran into me with their mobility scooter once, should i have reported that? Oh and there was the boy on his ipad who walked into my kid once on holiday, he should go down as well

Unlikely to cause enough harm to want to go through making a no win, no fee company richer with a spurious personal injury claim when they just as likely don't have insurance to cover walking in the street with their kid in any case.

What are you going on about?

Also, in the unlikely event someone was hurt by someone pushing a pram, the law already caters for it e.g. recklessly causing a battery.

Why can't you understand that I was quoting the exact words of someone who witnessed it. Their account was on another site, completely unconnected with this one.

I wanted opinions on it. It seemed to me to be absolutely wrong to endanger a child that way. It also occurred to me that it was equally wrong to endanger other pavement users, whether pushing a pram or riding a scooter or wheelchair, or pavement scooter.

Incidentally, this year the number of drivers handed instant fines for holding a phone and driving has gone up considerably in the past few years. That was on the news a couple of days ago.

It seems, even with a law against it, fools cannot help themselves.

You win for the stupidest thing I’ve seen on the internet.

My husband was pushing my daughter in her wheelchair. We were running to get inside as it was chucking it down. He ran her face on into a bollard. She had a mega bruise for a week. No phone involved. Should we ban running in the rain?

These things happen. Distractions are all around us. Let’s not equate that into driving a machine capable of killing whilst distracted.

I do indeed understand you were quoting that person and the quote seems to indicate the person with the pram was looking at her phone, not just talking. So my point stands.