Only a split second more and your life can be ruined

[Roverlord off road spares]

I took Brendon out for a driving lesson, he wanted to drive to a mates place and for me to take the car home again. As we drove up the narrow street that his mate live on, I noticed a Ford territory with rthe tail gate up and there seemd to be lots of young children mucking around in it.
I said to Brendon, watch out there kids a=head in the car, take it slower as you never know if a kid runs out in front of your car. Having seadi that a toddler comes running out from behind the Ford and runs straight into our path! Brendon was traveling slow so he managed to stop without hitting the little girl. She just ran off as if nothing had happened.
I did not see any adults around so /i went to the house that the car was parked outside, knocked on the door. The father came to the door, he was doing some work in the empty house and had left the kids to look after themselves. :mad:
I told him what had happened and he thanked me, and said "Just like the Script".
He then went to scold the kids.
I don't think he thought that maybe he was also at fault. Letting the kids run amuck in his parked car and a youngster in charge of all the other little kids. He should have known where his kids were at all times

It could of been a case of a dead or injured toddler and the trauma on my son's mind for ever.

[loneranger]

As an 18 year old on P plates I watched a mother call her son across the street into the path of a car when picking him up from school. The kid was lucky the other driver was going slow and he bounced off the car and carried on going.

I just happened to be driving past at the time. It's always stayed with me and I hated picking my kids up from school. Thankfully for your son nothing happened.

[edddo]

I took Brendon out for a driving lesson, he wanted to drive to a mates place and for me to take the car home again. As we drove up the narrow street that his mate live on, I noticed a Ford territory with rthe tail gate up and there seemd to be lots of young children mucking around in it.
I said to Brendon, watch out there kids a=head in the car, take it slower as you never know if a kid runs out in front of your car. Having seadi that a toddler comes running out from behind the Ford and runs straight into our path! Brendon was traveling slow so he managed to stop without hitting the little girl. She just ran off as if nothing had happened.
I did not see any adults around so /i went to the house that the car was parked outside, knocked on the door. The father came to the door, he was doing some work in the empty house and had left the kids to look after themselves. :mad:
I told him what had happened and he thanked me, and said "Just like the Script".
He then went to scold the kids.
I don't think he thought that maybe he was also at fault. Letting the kids run amuck in his parked car and a youngster in charge of all the other little kids. He should have known where his kids were at all times

It could of been a case of a dead or injured toddler and the trauma on my son's mind for ever.

That is one valuable driving lesson!

[JDNSW]

Not just toddlers - when I was about ten, I was dropped off close to the school by my father - and failed to look for traffic before running across the road. Fortunately I ran into the side of a car, not in front of it, with only some minor bruises. But it scared the daylights out me, my father, and presumably the driver of the car! Again - a split second.

John

[Roverlord off road spares]

My mum hit a kid at a school pickup 50 old years ago. The kid was unhurt, lots of witnesses told my mum that the kid just ran out in front of her.
Those were the days without head phones and mobiles!

[d2dave]

Some people have no idea. They should not be allowed to have kids.

I can imagine what it would have been like for Brendon had the worst happened.

[Pickles2]

"Should not be allowed to have kids"?
Absolutely 100% SPOT ON. The majority of problems with kids these days are created by parents who couldn't give a stuff, and who are not prepared to "put in the effort".
Pickles.

[vnx205]

Brendon's has probably benefited greatly from that experience.

Some research years ago suggested that if a new driver had a near miss very early in their driving career, they were less likely to be involved in an accident in subsequent years.

Those who didn't have a near miss in the first few weeks or months were more likely to wipe themselves out in the first few years.

Sometimes a near miss like Brendon's is the only way for people to get the message about how quickly things can go pear shaped and how alert you need to be.

[67hardtop]

While driving in cebu in the philippines a few yrs ago, returning from a "beach resort", I was travelling about 30 kmh. Some peanut in a pajero went flying past me on what could best be described as a bitumised track at best. Parked on the side of the road was a jeepney at one of many roadside stores. They drive on the rh side over there. I was driving a 05 corolla. As the paj speed past me something caught my eye and I slammed on the brakes just as a little girl came running out in front of the jeepney. I just saw her legs under the bumper as she was running out. Thanks to abs I stopped and she bounced of the front bumper of the corolla and landed on the road. A little scrape to her knee as she landed. Luckily for her I have fast reflexces from years of racing and motorcycling. She was ok. Split second earlier and she would be toast from the pajero. Afterwards I checked why she bounced so easily, (sounds bad but not so), and it seems the hire car I had, had no front bar reo fitted. The front bar cover absorbed her impact and she literally bounced off. Not so had there been a reo fitted. Thanks to dodgy repairer she was unhurt. Would have cost me a pretty penny in bribes etc had I not been dating a copper while I was over there. Parent was only concerned about how much I should pay her ( wanted 40,000 peso) to not report it until my girl friend showed her ID. I thank the powers that be that I was only travelling so slowly that day, also the dodgy repairer who didnt do his job right, abs and my fast right boot on the brake pedal. Couple burgers from Jollibee and the little girl was all good. Scared the crap out of me. Had bad dreams for ages. Found out that plenty ppl get put in jail over there for similar things and dont get out till the appropriate bribe is paid to the ppl with the shiny badges and guns. Scarey stuff. I was leaving the next day as well. Thank goodness the little girl was ok.

Cheers Rod

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[Ausfree]

Working as a bus driver, I was driving my bus along a narrow road and there was another bus coming the other way. On the side of the road were kids about 8 to 10 years old riding their bicycles.

Both buses, recognising the danger slowed right down and as I passed the other bus a kid on a bike come riding out from behind the other bus straight into the side of my bus.:o Just as well both buses were only doing about 15kph.

I immeadiately stopped and ran down the side of my bus, but by the time I got around the back of the bus, the kid had cleared out.

Could have been a lot worse, he could have gone under the back wheel of the bus, which was what I was expecting to see when I ran around the back of the bus..........whewww!!!

[FeatherWeightDriver]

"Should not be allowed to have kids"?
Absolutely 100% SPOT ON. The majority of problems with kids these days are created by parents who couldn't give a stuff, and who are not prepared to "put in the effort".
Pickles.

A year or so ago I had to rescue a 2.5(ish) year old from the median strip of Liverpool Road in Sydney - the kid was jogging in and out of 4 lanes each way of traffic!

Parents of course nowhere to be seen, so we sat off in a side street and called the police to collect the child.

Once the police returned the child to give me a call to let me know the child was back with their parents, and that they didn't have any issues finding where he lived because apparently this was a regular occurrence.

Fair enough you can't watch a child 100% of the time, and accidents / oversights happen, but repeat occurrences are inexcusable. Some people should not be allowed to breed :censored: