2 little boys have been killed

[3littlebats]

Taking their scooters across a motorway. I didn't hear the whole report. They were 6 and 7. I cannot begin to imagine what they were doing on a motorway??

i know its terrible. and what about the poor drivers that hit them? their lives are ruined too, at best theyll never drive again. what else could they have done? am amazed not more people were killed/injured

so sad, there have been so many tragedies this week.

I can't find any reference to it - I just caught the tail end of the item on the radio.

omg!.......thats awful!

Very sad. Seems they had been reported missing a little earlier.

I caught this on the radio, it's awful.. so young with motor scooters, crossing a motorway FFS.. and agree re. poor drivers.

hit by three cars and

Poor kids, poor families and poor,poor drivers

Dreadful.

they'll be so many feeling the guilt too. very sad

OMG

motor scooters????

I read this and felt so sick and sad for the families, all the drivers who were there at the time and the police having to sort it out.

"We had numerous 999 calls from drivers on the motorway to say that they had seen these two boys with their scooters on the hard shoulder."

Didn't anybody STOP??????

they would have been going too fast i guess, and apparently its not lit on that stretch of the motorway, they may have only seen them as they went past.

Good Lord!

whereabouts was this?

WEndyewber - my thought exactly. I would have stopped immediately and walked back up the hard shoulder to talk to them and take them to safety! Deeply shocking, on many levels.

People think that if you use your mobile you have done what you can do. i bet you anything that in the days before mobiles rather than calling and making it someone else's responsibility, someone would have STOPPED.

I am aghast at human beings, honestly i am.

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horrid to say the words but responsibility for those boys safety was not on the drivers who saw them as they drove past.

Could you have just carried on driving, if you had seen them, piff?

So terribly awful
Poor parents, poor families, poor drivers, and although I think the people who rang to report seeing them really should have stopped, imagine their guilt at hearing this news. So sad for everyone involved in this tragic accident

Piffle - primarily, no..but in my book a problem becomes the responsibility (in part) of everyone who witnesses it...when people who cannot take responsibility for themselves - i.e children - are involved, anyway.

I would have stopped.

I was driving back home from Manchester last night and got caught up in all the traffic from this. I didn't realise what it was until now

That part of the motorway isn't lit so those poor drivers who hit them really wouldn't have had a chance of stopping.

Horrendous

it's a motorway, very hard to stop safely - and my point was that they should not have been there in the first place.
The onus lies on the carers thus
yes I am sure stopping and helping them would have prevented their deaths and it would have been wonderful if someone had bene able to. People bothered to ring in, so maybe stopping was simply too difficult

But blame does nothing when two kids have been killed- tis a tragedy for all involved for sure