Coworkers kid hit by car while on his bike

[badgercat]

That's terrible. I've encountered many similar situations as a pedestrian... someone waves you on, you hesitate because there are cars coming in the other lane, they get impatient, no one knows who should go, etc. It was a poor move on the driver's part, but I can also kind of put myself in his/her shoes of automatically giving the kid the right of way, without considering that there would be other traffic. (I made that mistake myself once of waving someone across without checking for other traffic... fortunately, the pedestrian did see the other car first and waited until the coast was clear. Scared the pants off of me, though). Fleeing the scene, however, is completely unjustifiable.

[aicabsolut]

That's terrible. I've encountered many similar situations as a pedestrian... someone waves you on, you hesitate because there are cars coming in the other lane, they get impatient, no one knows who should go, etc.

Happens to me all the time. I have to sit there and think, well, thanks for being nice, but there's a line of cars zooming past you in the other lane, so what do you want me to do?

Poor kid.

[rij73]

I fell victim to a similar situation when driving once. I was coming out of a parking lot, a city bus waved me out, but there was a car passing the bus that slammed right into my driver's side. It happened really fast.

I really feel for the kid. I wish he had been better educated about safe riding! Hope he makes a full recovery. He could have easily been killed...