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    10 children in 4WD rollover.

    Some parents need to be locked up and others need supervision orders.

    see: Lucky escape for 10 children in car roll-over - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    Assuming the "adults" in this car were not the parents of all 10 children, but unlicensed, drink driving with 10 kids on board is unacceptable, not only because only 1 of the kids was buckled up.

    The other parents who let their 10 kids ride in the available 5 remaining seats need counselling and supervision by Family Services.

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    It springs to my mind that in this almost over-regulated world you basically need a license for almost everything but anyone still can become a parent without too much fuss...
    Seeing it from a more professional point of view, many parents are apparently lacking the maturity to acting like adults and taking appropriate responsibility for themselves and their offspring. You can see the results...
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    Times have changed.

    Back when I was a little younger used to travel to school in the back of fathers ute. Not just his kids though. As we lived the furthest out would pick up another 5 on the way in. All traveled in the back of the ute.

    As a kid it was a daily adventure. When it was raining was told it was character building.

    Today as an adult in the modern world I understand the dangers and would not allow it.


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    You can't legislate against stupidity, unfortunately.

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    sure you can but then you'd also have to legislate for honesty....

    lets face it either one would put all of the pollies in breach so it'd never pass.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies View Post
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    The other parents who let their 10 kids ride in the available 5 remaining seats need counselling and supervision by Family Services.
    it's a sad fact of life that the one's that need the counselling & supervision never seem to get it and if they do eventually get it,it is usaully to late.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies View Post
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    Assuming the "adults" in this car were not the parents of all 10 children, but unlicensed, drink driving with 10 kids on board is unacceptable, not only because only 1 of the kids was buckled up.
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    The "unlicensed, drink driving" is the major offence - once someone is prepared to do this, while carrying a bunch of unrestrained kids makes it worse, without the "drink driving" it is very unlikely there would have been anything for the news services to report. Even the "unlicenced" is probably significant only because it very likely means that the driver used to be licenced but lost it, probably for drink driving.

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    wow....the oldest was seven

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    Quote Originally Posted by 3toes View Post
    Times have changed.

    Back when I was a little younger used to travel to school in the back of fathers ute. Not just his kids though. As we lived the furthest out would pick up another 5 on the way in. All traveled in the back of the ute.

    As a kid it was a daily adventure. When it was raining was told it was character building.

    Today as an adult in the modern world I understand the dangers and would not allow it.


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    but would the driver been under the influence and not licenced ???

    i agree i used to travel on trayback 4wds as a kid to go fishing.....on the hi-way at 100km/hr

    agree in todays world we are not allowed to assess these risks.......you should have seen the replies when i posted a vid of my boys riding on my landy when i was camping.......

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    Quote Originally Posted by 3toes View Post
    Times have changed.

    Back when I was a little younger used to travel to school in the back of fathers ute. Not just his kids though. As we lived the furthest out would pick up another 5 on the way in. All traveled in the back of the ute.

    As a kid it was a daily adventure. When it was raining was told it was character building.

    Today as an adult in the modern world I understand the dangers and would not allow it.


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    I don't see any problem here, as long as the driver is aware of his/her responsibility, as your dad presumably was, and the children/people are old/mature enough to know how to behave in the back of an ute and understand the consequences of getting it wrong. Unfortunately, this part of feeling responsible for one's actions has often disappeared. I still wouldn't mind having someone riding on the tray on a farm track or similar, where no other traffic (other than cattle, maybe) will be encountered. On public roads it is an entirely different story, though, as even the most cautious driver cannot always account for other's stupidity and incompetence.
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