Video of boy hit by a bus

[SlugLobber]

Something every reckless kid should see. Don't watch if you're a fearful mother, though!

BBC NEWS | Scotland | South of Scotland | Footage shows boy struck by bus

[FionaH]

yuk thats scarey. I'm going to forward that to both my boys! How mindlessly stupid!! I feel sorry for the bus driver to be honest

ps wasnt a fearful mother before, am now

[HeyWayne]

That's frighteningly similar to what I saw as a kid. Flashbacks. It's the driver I feel for.

[jackie j]

Trouble is when the kids all come out of school on mass they think nothing will happen to them, they cross roads and walk in the road without a thought for anyone else. The other day my niece tooted her horn at kids crossing the road she wanted to turn into they didnt even look to see if a car was coming the look they gave her was terrible.
Teenagers are the worst ones for not crossing roads properly, when I used to take my daughter to primary school I told her that I hoped she wouldnt behave on the roads like it when she was older, now she is 12 I dont think she does but when they get in a group all sense goes out the window.

[Capsid]

I'm struck and dismayed by the lack of interest by the bystanders. The car drivers seem to be waiting for the lights to change.

ETA: perhaps struck is inappropriate. Sorry.

[Johnny Appleseed]

Viewing that footage should be compulsory in all schools. Thanks for the link.

The kids leaving school in my area seem to think it's funny to suddenly push a friend into the road as a car approaches or even jump off the pavement sideways themselves towards a car as you approach them.

As the driver slams on the brakes with a look of horror on their face and mouth wide open in shock (it's happened to me twice now) - they run off laughing.

Absolute cretins.

[Capsid]

Viewing that footage should be compulsory in all schools. Thanks for the link.

The kids leaving school in my area seem to think it's funny to suddenly push a friend into the road as a car approaches or even jump off the pavement sideways themselves towards a car as you approach them.

As the driver slams on the brakes with a look of horror on their face and mouth wide open in shock (it's happened to me twice now) - they run off laughing.

Absolute cretins.

My father ran over a kid who was pushed out in the road by his "mates". Fortunately, he was a big kid and only suffered bruises but they had to lift the car off him. It was quite traumatic for my father, he thought he'd killed him.

[Johnny Appleseed]

My father ran over a kid who was pushed out in the road by his "mates". Fortunately, he was a big kid and only suffered bruises but they had to lift the car off him. It was quite traumatic for my father, he thought he'd killed him.

Hi Capsid - My feelings are 100% with your father on this one. I was shaking with shock at the near misses. If they did it to a driver with a weak heart - that could be it.

There are plenty of campaigns for "Twenty is plenty" near schools, which I fully support.

But how do you cope with stupid actions like this from kids?

[HeyWayne]

Hi Capsid - My feelings are 100% with your father on this one. I was shaking with shock at the near misses. If they did it to a driver with a weak heart - that could be it.

There are plenty of campaigns for "Twenty is plenty" near schools, which I fully support.

But how do you cope with stupid actions like this from kids?

Bring back David Prowse! (and not as Darth Vader).

[Capsid]

Bring back David Prowse! (and not as Darth Vader).

I think Darth Vader might get the message across! Feel the force of that bus hitting you.

[ailsasyl]

At Stacey's school there is a lollipop lady. The head now closes the carpark gates and has created a new smaller opening to prevent the kids from flooding out and to cross with the lollipop lady seems to work at home time but not so much in the mornings as the kids go over the garage and instead of walking the couple of hundred yards back to the lollipop crossing cross at the car park gates which have to be open at this time for the teachers arriving.

[Johnny Appleseed]

What are the schools / parents doing about this?

After all, the car driver usually gets the blame after the event - even if the child did something really stupid or acted without thinking in a momentary lapse of concentration - speed is usually the first consideration.

My cousin ran out from behind a school bus in a bid to get across the road quickly. She only lived 60 metres from the bus stop.

The oncoming car driver never had a chance to stop.

After 20 years we still miss her and nothing can erase the feeling of a life lost so young.

I cannot drive near or past a school without thinking of her and of what might have been.

I only wish these dare devil kids could glimpse the horror of the consequences if they get it wrong.

[jackie j]

I have been a lollipop lady I gave up because of the older kids that wouldnt take any notice.
An old lady once told me that her friend was driving along a main road near us and loads of kids from one of the local schools came down the lane and crossed without looking but not on the crossing as this is offset from the lane, her friend hit one of them even though she wasnt going very fast and the rest of the kids started shaking the car and trying to turn it over with the lady still inside.
I dont know the outcome apart from it really shook the lady up.
I try to avoid driving anywhere near senior schools at home time as they are by far the worst.

[Johnny Appleseed]

Senior school kids

I don't doubt it at all Jackie.

In Southampton the seniors will cycle in groups through red lights; walk across the road en-masse stopping the traffic and if you dare sound your horn they surround the car glaring into it.

One boy even jumped into the road in front of me, holding his bag up high and screamed "Stop - kids crossing" so he and his mates could cross the road. And this was on a completely open stretch of road.

When I complained to the Head the reply was, once they are off the school grounds they are not my problem. Shameful.

[SlugLobber]

Sorry to read about your cousin, Johnny. Hope my post didn't open any wounds.

My own cousin went in front of a bus as a teen. He was lucky, in a rebuilt pelvis, broken legs kind of way.

That's so sad about that Head's attitude. When I was at school, if any reports came back of us mis-behaving whilst wearing our uniform, we were punished in exactly the same way as if it was on school premises.

It's not completely the kids' fault though, is it? How many times have you seen parents yanking a kiddie across a busy road, dodging traffic? Happens all the time in Dorking, normally about 20m away from traffic lights that they've campaigned for...