Schoolgirl five killed after being hit by 2 bikes

[HaggisHunter]

A five-year-old girl died today after being knocked down by two motorbikes, while her grandmother remains in a critical condition.
The 72-year-old’s two other granddaughters, aged 10 and six, also received serious injuries in the horrific crash in Weymouth, Dorset, on Sunday.
The five-year-old girl, who has not yet been named, suffered severe head injuries in the collision and died at the Southampton General Hospital.
The family had been crossing a busy road towards a nature reserve when all four were struck by the two machines.
The woman and her youngest granddaughter were flown by air ambulance to Southampton General Hospital where there is a special neurological unit.

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Personally i think its a sad loss and puts motorcyclists in a 'Bad light' even though the family were crossing in a dangerous place, even though there is zebra crossing close-by, Opinions?

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Those motorcyclists are going to live with that guilt for the rest of their lives, and probably get penalized for it additionally.

Sad story, shit happens.



Seems noone was arrested actually... Not sure exactly what happened seems like they crossed at a crossing when it wasnt safe to, or the little kid ran into the road...
"The family had been crossing a busy road towards a nature reserve when all four were struck by the two machines."


Then you read stories about car/van drivers like this https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2113720/White-van-man-runs-teenager-tent-Boy-16-condition-hospital-row-escalated.html

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Looking at that stretch of road where the belongings are scattered, assuming that's where they crossed, it appears to be on a bend, with no pavement either side and nowhere near a pedestrian crossing.

I might sound callous here, but if that is the case, then what the hell was the grandmother thinking of trying to cross there?

EDIT:
From the comments on the Daily Mail website:

"I live in Weymouth and know this road. It is a by-pass. How many by passes do you know that have crossings on them. There is a crossing not far from the site of the accident for pedestrians.The footpath concerned should be blocked off as it arrives directly onto this road where there is no pathway. It is also at the end of a sweeping bend in the road. Why should these bikers be arrested if it was not their fault. This was a tragic accident.

- Jenny Castell, Weymouth, England, 13/3/2012"

I hope they prosecute the grandmother,
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I was expecting a statement along the lines of: "The family were happily crossing the road with no traffic in sight, then out of no where a pack of bikers roared down the road at least 150mph, 2 were seen to be wheelying at the point of impact.". But none of that, must of just been bad judgement by the old lady?
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I cannot even begin to imagine how those bikers feel. I feel sick just thinking about it.

Horrible thing to happen.

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That's properly awful. There's no winners there, regardless of what the investigation turns up.
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The grandmother must be in the wrong otherwise the mail would have had a headline something like 'Wreckless daredevil bikers on 200mph superbikes massacre family!'


Feel sorry for all involved, specially the family.
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A horrible accident, saying that the bikers will live with it for the rest of there lives.

The media will prob say it was the bikers fault aswell

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[junglejim]

Once I was riding along at a fairly pedestrian pace on an open 40mph road and spotted a young woman jogging towards me on the footpath.
Suddenly and bizzarly, as I was about a few meters away, she ran straight out into my path to cross the road.
I managed to swerve but still clipped her with my mirror.
It was weird because she seemed to be looking straight at me when she did it.
I pulled over, and she was standing frozen in the middle of the road, so I went over and took her back to the pavment.
I then noticed she had earphones in from her walkman or whatever, so got her to take those out and we started talking.
She was very apologetic and said she just didn't see me.
Actually, I think she was so engrossed in whatever she was listening too, that she didn't notice anything.
Anyway, no harm done and we went our seperate ways, although I am utterly convinced that if I had crashed into and killed this woman, I would have been the spawn of the devil in the eye's of the media.

[Carl_steveo]

Same thing happened recently in Sunderland. Mother crossing a B road with a double buggy and the biker hits her. One of the twins was alright another was critically ill. Theres been no update about this for a month though. There was an outcry though about the biker but when you realise the section of road it's on I wouldn't fancy running across it at 9 in the morning on my own let alone with children.
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Terrible
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[Llama-Farmer]

Tragic and terrible.

It seems that nobody is blaming the bikers, which I take to mean they are completely not at fault. It seems the grandmother didn't exercise as good judgement as she could have done and crossed at a risky place.

You would usually expect to see an article completely blaming "bloody bikers", even if it wasn't completely their fault, but the article doesn't seem to have a hint of that.


Cannot imagine how awful they must feel though, and how bad it must be for all those who were involved or witnessed the accident.

[st3v3]

I think it's a bit wrong that if the riders were in the wrong they would be thoroughly slated but when some innocent grandmother pedestrian makes a bad judgement no blame is directly placed.

Can't imagine the family's emotional state either.
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[anika_perry]

Irresponsible motorcyclists!!! Awwww... I hate them!

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[Andy_Pagin]

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You can pretty much tell the bikers were a decent bunch. Look at the few pictures you can see of them.
The Blackbird is very stock looking, and they are all in proper motorbike gear, yet not power-ranger style, hooligan gear either.

Totally agree with Andy, was the old womans fault. What a rediculous place to be crossing a road!

Poor little kiddies!

[Al]

I agree that looking at the photos of the bikers, middle aged, sensible gear, pillions ect you wouldn't think of them as hooligans. Which is probably why the police didn't arrest them. I wonder how different it would have been if it had happened to be a bunch of twenty year olds on race reps.
I reckon the old lady probably saw a break in traffic and though it was safe to cross completely looking through the bikes. I can't really see the point in punishing her further as it was clearly just a tragic accident. I'm sure we've all taken silly little risks at some point.
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