For all you parents....

[Stalk]

..... that sick feeling you get when the phone rings and a stranger tells you that they have just picked your child up and have called an ambulance.

Daughter threw her ped down the road due to a combination of late braking, wet roads, and some nice rainbow pattens leading up to the junction, a low speed lowside. Ambulance attended, broken finger and bruises to leg. Police turned up, breathalyser. Bike OK, Got her to ride home so she did not loose her confidence.

Scared me, and I will admit to getting a bit tearful, as its my kid after all

Just thought I would share
Stalk

[P.addy]

I've woken up with my parents in tears after being put into a coma for 3 days.

I don't know how they felt, but I did ask about getting another bike

Hope she is ok mate

[Az]

[Commuter_Tim]

[Stalk]

Yes, that does sound a bit harsh, but it was not like that, I asked her if she was ok to get the bike home, and she was fine with it. It would have been easy to chuck it in the back of the van if needed.

Cheers
Stalk

[CaNsA]

[MC]

Lol, my mum didn't give a f**k Respect for her riding the bike back.
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[Llama-Farmer]

Glad she is not so hurt that she cannot still ride, important to get "back on the horse" before it becomes something of a bigger deal than it really is.

A friend of a friend had a slow low side on a roundabout the day before going on holiday, then came back a month later and didn't go out on the bike for another few months whilst getting it fixed up. Finished sorting it and checked it was running, but didn't take it out for another couple of months. Before he realised, it had become quite a big psychological deal. Had the bike been ride-home-able he'd probably have jumped back on and nothing more of it.


Not a parent myself so can't begin to imagine the worry of receiving a phone call like that. My parents used to get really worried if I went out with friends and just didn't call or text them to let them know the plans had changed and I'd be back home later than planned. And they must have known the chances of something being wrong were very slim just because I hadn't called. So actually getting a call from someone telling you something is wrong, that must be pretty rough.
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[gavbriggs]

When I first had a ped 22 odd years ago we didn't have a phone at home. Phones were only just becoming a viable portable device if you had big enough pockets and tbh I rarely went home at the weekends from the age of 15 so it would have been a fair while before my mother knew if anything had happened to me.

I can't imagine not being in signal range these days!.
Getting her back on was the best way. I do it with my kid and the horses. Keeps em confident and I'm pretty sure it doesn't hurt much if you don't make a fuss!

[Rogerborg]

[Baffler186]

good shout on encouraging her to ride home. My sister fell off a push bike years ago and has never got on a bike since.....
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[SQL]

[Ste]

woo yay etc that she didn't have to go in the amberlamps.

Hate to think what went through my parents minds when the police turned up on their doorsteps to tell them I was in hospital after a crash. At least they didn't find out until later why a family liaison officer had been assigned. Shits me up thinking about it ten years after the event.

[deadwolf]

[sidewinder]

I know the feeling.little one fell down some steps once.face all covered in blood.so I rush her to hospital only to find out it just a bit of blood been smeared from a little scratch. .

[Ste]

And people wonder why A&E is always really busy!

[Llama-Farmer]

[dolly3900]

[jonbee56]

Had this last year when a stranger called & told me that my mrs had a car crash & the ambulance was on its way !!!

It was all OK after a couple of days in hospital, but you sh1t yourself at the time..
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[mudcow007]

without sounding 'orrible, i think id does people good to have small "off" (as someone else said)

obviously nothing that damages them too much, a bruise or something is enough....

it slowed me down in my car after my crash - an i use to drive like it was stolen

hope everything is ok

[Polarbear]

My youngest daughter does stunt riding on horses, rides motorbikes and is an adrenaline junkie. Just about anything goes.

I got specialist insurance for her incase the worst happens but I would never try and stop her doing what she wants because a) she's 20 and b) she would hate me for it.
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[Llama-Farmer]

[P.addy]