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Originally Posted by andyl
Is this post for real? If I'm understanding this a child should have more road sense than an adult behind the wheel of a one tonne speeding heap of metal?
You are not living anywhere near the real world. My kids play out on the side street (we don't have a garden) where I live. It's a 20mph zone with cobbles (not good for your pimped up ride). Yet idiot drivers still drive totally recklessly around here. Why? How much quicker are they going to get anywhere? We're talking seconds. But that's not the point. It's big and its clever. Woo hoo big boys. This is not 'modern crap'; there are a hell of a lot more cars on the road than when I was a kid, and millions more idiot drivers who think they are King of The Road and can handle driving at speed. And my kids have nearly been wiped out by a bloke taking a roundabout too fast and very nearly hitting them on the pavement, where cars are not supposed to. Driving brings with it a big responsibility which many appear unable to realise and/or accept.
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True, but 20 cameras outside a school won't help with any of that, will they? Unless you live next door to the school.
It's a media hysteria type reaction to say 'more cameras outside schools'. Waste of time. Most schools have a crossing patrol at peak times so there'd be little need anyway.
There's certainly driver education needed but this is no substitute for parents actually telling kids to keep the hell away from busy roads. This is not done these days. The attitude seems to be, if you get run over we'll sue and be rich. Abominable. It's always someone else's fault of course.
Kids need the green cross code...as I said. It was great, it was drummed into you, and it worked.