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 feel so sorry for all concerned

Have taken the opportunity to give the dses a big lecture on road safety.

But where did anyone get the idea they were playing with motor scooters?! The articles I've read just says scooters.

I think it meant those little ones that look like scooters but have some battery power etc. ?

How is pulling over (in a responsible manner0 on to the hard shoulder in an emergency dangerous? It's what it's for!

Oh well. Anyway.

It is a tragic accident - they were told be be back by 5pm, told not to go near the motorway...the times i played on the railway line as a child, having been told not to, don't bear thinking about....poor little mites, and poor parents

FlightAttendant: Times Online says push scooters too. I'm guessing someone misread along the way.

Pulling over in an emergency is fine but getting out and walkinga nywhere IS a danger, indeed being in a car on the hard shoulder full stop places you at much higher risk of an accident.

The children were noticed to be missing, they weren't ignored or neglected; whether you allow children out at this age is a matter of judgement, no more (I dont but that doesn't make those who do wrong). Especially as I suspect it was half term there? not here yet (give it half hour...) but in plenty of palces.

Sounds like Dad did all the stuff- the warnings, was searching for them. A tragic accident.

Blu, agree- no railway lines for us oh no, a canal with solid cement linings (a lock basin) where escape would be literally impossible.

i think if the majority of us are honest about what we got up to as children, we realise that our kids WILL put themselves at risk no matter how we try to rpevent it, certainly Mum would weep if she knew what we got up to!

What a terrible story. Those poor little boys, and the drivers that hit them and their parents. Unbearable.

You can just imagine that they made a mistake going exploring and didn't know how to get out of it.

how terribly shocking and tragic. so sad of r the boys, their families and the poor drivers.