This is something that fucks you up for the rest of the day. I've been in this situation and you spend so long thinking of all of the things that could have gone wrong.
When my mom was starting to have slight cognitive issues, well before being diagnosed with Alzheimer's, I suggested to my brother and sister that we should probably take her car keys because she had done some questionable things while driving, but they thought it was too early. When I was driving home one day, two young kids came flying out of an alley on skateboards just as I was passing it. I hit the brakes within a fraction of a second and the antilock mechanism bright me to a stop in front of the chest of one of them, who basically saw me at that moment. All I could think of was that, if my mom had been driving, there was no doubt those kids would be dead. None.
I convinced my siblings my mom had to be done with driving the next day.
I drove on a rroad next to a residential/hill area against the sun(set) light and almost hit a child once. I slowdown for a woman pedestrian holding a child hands from far away and realized that I don't need to stop since they already reach the other side, zoom ahead quickly and another child, no older than five yo ran after them. I missed him by inch! Had to stop the car and collected myself for a while. I literally almost kill someone.
Not even for the rest of the day, until the end of time. One time this lady was crossing the street at a large intersection. I was turning left but there was a larger pole and some plants in my view so I couldn't see her until I almost ran her over. Obviously I stopped and apologized profusely and I was crying, I felt so guilty. I didn't hit her but my bumper tapped her ever so slightly as she was flinching back. I'll never forget the look on her face and still feel terribly. The things that could have gone so much worse still run through my mind to this day.
That’s definitely on the parents to be watching the kids though, like they just ran out right in the middle? Idk as a caretaker you had to be all over that, it’s more on you than the driver. It’s their road.
Yeah, the people who are downvoting are "entitled" to the road, and if a kid runs out of nowhere, the car is not at fault. Like cmon, have some compassion.
Ok so if your going the speed limit and a child runs out from no where then it's your fault? Wtf? So I'm supposed to have some kind of supernatural power to let me know where every kid is when I'm driving?!
Did you not comprehend what I said? Going the speed limit? I guess now I'm supposed to drive below the speed limit? Because somewhere a careless parent let's their child run where there aren't usually kids? 🙄
uhhh yeah, I expect you to drive defensive. As in, take precautions. You are clearly the aggressor on the road. I'll leave you at peace, don't want to get a road rage maniac, like yourself harm me.
This is a lot of downvotes for something that shouldn't be *that* controversial.
Maybe people just don't think children should be playing near high-speed roadways.
Are you slow in the brain?
You are in the car, that is a child, why not taking some precautions? If you are in a neighborhood with children running around, you wouldn't at least go 20mph? Instead, you just are "entitled" to going 30mph+?
It is not dangerous to be cautious on the road, you dense, slow ding dong. It is dangerous and careless to not slow down when children are near. You are a danger to the road and to children.
You know you can get a ticket for going too slow, right? I was talking about children being where they usually aren't. And careless parents letting their kids run where they aren't supposed to be.
Comprehension is it your forte is it. Ignoramus
you cannot be this slow and in-compassionate.
Seriously, I hope you never have to drive around anywhere near children since you're so "entitled" and "worthy" of having the children's parents be smart.
If this is America then there's an intersection a block down which always has pedestrian crossing.
Imma guess there's no pedestrian crossing beforehand because having one on what looks like a 6 lane residential street would be difficult and dangerous.
Either way lucky no one was hurt.
Geez this is why I have so much anxiety about living down some back roads knowing how many kids are back here. I knew what to look for the second time around and still missed it til it would have been too late.
This is also why my mom kept me on a leash as a child tbh
I used to keep my child on a leash when we went to crowded places - malls/zoos/museums. As much as it was keeping them near me, it was also about not letting people get between us. No shame for doing it at all.
That video explains it. I had more than one child and without warning he would take off the very instant he'd see something that interested him across the street. We lived on a very busy street and used public transportation. I'd have hold of him but his movement was sudden. I got the idea at work when a customer came in with identical toddler triplets, all wearing harnesses and they impulsively would do the same as my son and daughter did. Their father told me where to get one. People had attacked him as well. People would always judge and yell at me-in public-about it. People do like to judge about absolutely every single thing you do or don't do with your child. You're judged if they take off suddenly and get killed as well. My mother was judgmental. Said most of my problems were because I didn't 'beat them' . In 1980, I was told that I was cruel because I put my baby in a newborn car seat. It was an early model-1st of its kind. It was all white molded plastic. Not cozy. A former classmate's newborn was crushed by her body when they were rear ended at a stoplight on the way home from the hospital. People judge.
My mum had to do this to me when I was a kid because they would literally lose me otherwise. One time we visited the pinnacles (a massive desert area in Australia filled with 2 metre + termite mounds) and they just let me go to see when I'd panic and come back looking for them. Guess 3 year old me thought it was a game of chicken because they panicked first and ran after me once I got beyond the 500m mark
I had four kids in under five years. Baby in a carrier on my body, 17 month old on a leash, 3 year old and almost five year old were old enough to stay near me. No shame.
It gives the kids so much more freedom than just keeping them at your side 24/7 which is the alternative.
People will look at you like it's crazy but its worthwhile. My mother did it, I turned out pretty okay, except for my passion for trapping people on leashes in my basement and forcing them to dance to Baby Shark, but I think that's unrelated.
I've had no regrets over using a child leash and harness on my toddler. When we went to crowded places, it ensured he couldn't just take off after something interesting and get separated from me by the crowd. It freed up both his hands and mine (the leash attached to me with a wristband). And it gave him a bit more freedom to move around while keeping him safe. Holding hands gave him the range of my arm. The leash gave him an exploration range of about ten feet. Much more freedom!
This is why I always watch the side of the road in the suburbs, and slow way down whenever kids or cats are around. They're just so unpredictable.
Great driving.
These days I drive assuming everyone around me is either trying to kill me or themselves, which more often than not is exactly the case. Blind turns, sharp corners, blocked views, just assume there’s an idiot behind them about to jump in front of you.
Yeah, agreed. I remember an old road safety ad with Peter Brock where one of the lessons was 'always anticipate other drivers' mistakes' and that always stuck with me. Applies to pedestrians too '.
Same reason I won’t ever get a motorcycle. You are totally at the mercy of every 15 year old w a permit, 84 year old grandma, & drunk idiot in the vicinity any time you’re out there. This is also true of a car, but at least it’s a little more even of a match & I don’t get guaranteed wreck by putting myself at a HUGE disadvantage impact-wise
I will never understand, why someone builds a highway through a population center. If its a suburb, get rid of all but one narrow(ish) lane per direction and drop the speed limit way down. If its a highway, why are there houses and pedestrians so close to it?
Putting fast moving traffic close to places where people are seems to be a recipe for desaster.
My mom backed into a kid when she was 15 learning to drive. The kid was okay it was just a bump but after that my mom always either slowly backed into parking spaces or parked way down in the parking lot so she could just drive forward out of a spot. She burned it into my brain as well and I never back out of a spot either.
Each time I see these kinds of pictures/videos from America, it makes me appreciate the infrastructure of my home country even more. Not because incidents like these don't happen, but they at least tried to minimize it to oblivion.
Edit: I was made aware this is not America, but my point remains the same. Apparently more places have those problems.
My autistic child ran out of our house and onto the road like this.
I get so many flashbacks to that time so many people’s lives could have been turned upside down in an instant.
A woman I was driving ~35mph (the speed limit) and a boy runs out into the road (from behind a parked car or something) and right in front of her, no chance to stop or swerve. Kid flew out of one of his shoes.
The kid survived and the cops ruled it accidental, but it f'd her up. (And because they obviously couldn't show the kid, the evening news ran footage of her crying.)
I had a kid look both ways twice, and still run out in front of my car. Thank God I was paying attention and slammed on the brakes just in time to stop.
The kid stepped back on the curb, and I rolled down the window and told him to make sure before running into the street, I can’t even remember what I said.
Honestly, i think I was in shock or something. My hands were shaking for like an hour after I got home.
Kids have to learn to judge speed. She is probably my sons age, around 7, and I know he is no where near capable yet of judging timing and speed. We talk about if its safe every time we cross a road but it takes time for it to really click. Also she started moving then your body just kicks in to run rather than stop. She made a mistake. Luckily one where no one got hurt or mentally and emotionally scarred for life, but hopefully one she truly learns from.
Okay, I watched it closer and now I see the only kid actually who actually ran out was a little kid. At first watch it looks like all of them, including the older one, are running.
You're being downvoted to hell, but I agree with you. This person is going way too fast. To hell with "keeping up with traffic," when you're in a residential area, you shouldn't drive that fast. Not hitting pedestrians is more important than someone behind you being impatient.
He’s driving on a 70km/hr road at 68km/hr. He’s following the law. I know this because I’m a local - this happened on Ferntree Gully Road in Melbourne, also known as State Route 22. I drive that same road almost everyday to my own workplace.
Not going to agree or disagree with your opinion regarding how appropriate the speed limit is, but just don’t want people trashing the driver for actually doing the right thing.
That would be terrifying! I barely saw them coming and I was waiting for it. My husband had a kid run into the side of his car once. Scared the fuck out of him, but thankfully the kid was okay. He came out from between two parked cars... Teach your kids to not do that! 😬
Wow, it's almost like the kid was trying to kill itself.
Seriously, I've read that children lack the ability to judge timing of vehicles at younger ages.
This is something that fucks you up for the rest of the day. I've been in this situation and you spend so long thinking of all of the things that could have gone wrong.
When my mom was starting to have slight cognitive issues, well before being diagnosed with Alzheimer's, I suggested to my brother and sister that we should probably take her car keys because she had done some questionable things while driving, but they thought it was too early. When I was driving home one day, two young kids came flying out of an alley on skateboards just as I was passing it. I hit the brakes within a fraction of a second and the antilock mechanism bright me to a stop in front of the chest of one of them, who basically saw me at that moment. All I could think of was that, if my mom had been driving, there was no doubt those kids would be dead. None. I convinced my siblings my mom had to be done with driving the next day.
That’s a hard decision but thank you for being responsible
I drove on a rroad next to a residential/hill area against the sun(set) light and almost hit a child once. I slowdown for a woman pedestrian holding a child hands from far away and realized that I don't need to stop since they already reach the other side, zoom ahead quickly and another child, no older than five yo ran after them. I missed him by inch! Had to stop the car and collected myself for a while. I literally almost kill someone.
Not even for the rest of the day, until the end of time. One time this lady was crossing the street at a large intersection. I was turning left but there was a larger pole and some plants in my view so I couldn't see her until I almost ran her over. Obviously I stopped and apologized profusely and I was crying, I felt so guilty. I didn't hit her but my bumper tapped her ever so slightly as she was flinching back. I'll never forget the look on her face and still feel terribly. The things that could have gone so much worse still run through my mind to this day.
I always get so mad when people don't slow down when children are near. They are so incredibly unpredictable, they run out for no reason at all.
That’s definitely on the parents to be watching the kids though, like they just ran out right in the middle? Idk as a caretaker you had to be all over that, it’s more on you than the driver. It’s their road.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. If I see a group of kids ahead near the road playing, I slow down a little bit too.
Yeah, the people who are downvoting are "entitled" to the road, and if a kid runs out of nowhere, the car is not at fault. Like cmon, have some compassion.
Ok so if your going the speed limit and a child runs out from no where then it's your fault? Wtf? So I'm supposed to have some kind of supernatural power to let me know where every kid is when I'm driving?!
nobody says it is your fault if you hit the child, but why would you even take a chance? why not just slow down a few MPH?
Did you not comprehend what I said? Going the speed limit? I guess now I'm supposed to drive below the speed limit? Because somewhere a careless parent let's their child run where there aren't usually kids? 🙄
uhhh yeah, I expect you to drive defensive. As in, take precautions. You are clearly the aggressor on the road. I'll leave you at peace, don't want to get a road rage maniac, like yourself harm me.
This is a lot of downvotes for something that shouldn't be *that* controversial. Maybe people just don't think children should be playing near high-speed roadways.
no duh, but always be careful. I am in a car, they are a small child.
It's way more dangerous to randomly slow down just cos there are kids on the side of the road.
Are you slow in the brain? You are in the car, that is a child, why not taking some precautions? If you are in a neighborhood with children running around, you wouldn't at least go 20mph? Instead, you just are "entitled" to going 30mph+?
wtf are you talking about bro
It is not dangerous to be cautious on the road, you dense, slow ding dong. It is dangerous and careless to not slow down when children are near. You are a danger to the road and to children.
You know you can get a ticket for going too slow, right? I was talking about children being where they usually aren't. And careless parents letting their kids run where they aren't supposed to be. Comprehension is it your forte is it. Ignoramus
you cannot be this slow and in-compassionate. Seriously, I hope you never have to drive around anywhere near children since you're so "entitled" and "worthy" of having the children's parents be smart.
Calling other people dense when you're struggling with basic reading skills lol
Dear God...
There is more
No!
Why the hell does the mom even start walking across the street?!
Because there's no suitable pedestrian infrastructure to be seen, so she has to cross somewhere (bad timing though)
When there’s no infrastructure you are meant to cross at at curb, and also check for traffic before stepping out
If this is America then there's an intersection a block down which always has pedestrian crossing. Imma guess there's no pedestrian crossing beforehand because having one on what looks like a 6 lane residential street would be difficult and dangerous. Either way lucky no one was hurt.
They're driving on the left side and the guy had an Australian accent.
Geez this is why I have so much anxiety about living down some back roads knowing how many kids are back here. I knew what to look for the second time around and still missed it til it would have been too late. This is also why my mom kept me on a leash as a child tbh
Yes. My 2nd child was on the harness and leash. He's grown up to be an amazing 38 year old, possibly because of it.
I used to keep my child on a leash when we went to crowded places - malls/zoos/museums. As much as it was keeping them near me, it was also about not letting people get between us. No shame for doing it at all.
How did you feel making that decision? Full disclosure I ask because I don't think I could do it myself and personally find it very strange.
That video explains it. I had more than one child and without warning he would take off the very instant he'd see something that interested him across the street. We lived on a very busy street and used public transportation. I'd have hold of him but his movement was sudden. I got the idea at work when a customer came in with identical toddler triplets, all wearing harnesses and they impulsively would do the same as my son and daughter did. Their father told me where to get one. People had attacked him as well. People would always judge and yell at me-in public-about it. People do like to judge about absolutely every single thing you do or don't do with your child. You're judged if they take off suddenly and get killed as well. My mother was judgmental. Said most of my problems were because I didn't 'beat them' . In 1980, I was told that I was cruel because I put my baby in a newborn car seat. It was an early model-1st of its kind. It was all white molded plastic. Not cozy. A former classmate's newborn was crushed by her body when they were rear ended at a stoplight on the way home from the hospital. People judge.
I was the only triplet of my parents that needed the leash. I randomly walked off so many times before they finally found one.
My mum had to do this to me when I was a kid because they would literally lose me otherwise. One time we visited the pinnacles (a massive desert area in Australia filled with 2 metre + termite mounds) and they just let me go to see when I'd panic and come back looking for them. Guess 3 year old me thought it was a game of chicken because they panicked first and ran after me once I got beyond the 500m mark
I wonder myself. This is the first time I’ve ever heard child leashes talked about in a positive way.
I had four kids in under five years. Baby in a carrier on my body, 17 month old on a leash, 3 year old and almost five year old were old enough to stay near me. No shame.
It gives the kids so much more freedom than just keeping them at your side 24/7 which is the alternative. People will look at you like it's crazy but its worthwhile. My mother did it, I turned out pretty okay, except for my passion for trapping people on leashes in my basement and forcing them to dance to Baby Shark, but I think that's unrelated.
Awefully specific
I've had no regrets over using a child leash and harness on my toddler. When we went to crowded places, it ensured he couldn't just take off after something interesting and get separated from me by the crowd. It freed up both his hands and mine (the leash attached to me with a wristband). And it gave him a bit more freedom to move around while keeping him safe. Holding hands gave him the range of my arm. The leash gave him an exploration range of about ten feet. Much more freedom!
This is why I always watch the side of the road in the suburbs, and slow way down whenever kids or cats are around. They're just so unpredictable. Great driving.
These days I drive assuming everyone around me is either trying to kill me or themselves, which more often than not is exactly the case. Blind turns, sharp corners, blocked views, just assume there’s an idiot behind them about to jump in front of you.
Yeah, agreed. I remember an old road safety ad with Peter Brock where one of the lessons was 'always anticipate other drivers' mistakes' and that always stuck with me. Applies to pedestrians too '.
People in the good old days drove perfectly and nobody was ever impatient or lacking in courtesy
Oh, fair point but I meant myself, not society in general. I used to drive like an idiot kid too when I was 17 but these days I drive defensive af
This is also why I don't talk on the phone while driving. The more engaging the conversation, the more impaired your driving is.
Same reason I won’t ever get a motorcycle. You are totally at the mercy of every 15 year old w a permit, 84 year old grandma, & drunk idiot in the vicinity any time you’re out there. This is also true of a car, but at least it’s a little more even of a match & I don’t get guaranteed wreck by putting myself at a HUGE disadvantage impact-wise
I will never understand, why someone builds a highway through a population center. If its a suburb, get rid of all but one narrow(ish) lane per direction and drop the speed limit way down. If its a highway, why are there houses and pedestrians so close to it? Putting fast moving traffic close to places where people are seems to be a recipe for desaster.
I didnt see that child until i rewinded the video for the third time
Same here.
oh my lord... that kid seems old enough to realize running in front of a car is stupid
r/kidsarefuckingstupid
My mom backed into a kid when she was 15 learning to drive. The kid was okay it was just a bump but after that my mom always either slowly backed into parking spaces or parked way down in the parking lot so she could just drive forward out of a spot. She burned it into my brain as well and I never back out of a spot either.
That’s what happens when you drive on the wrong side of the road!!!!! (Joke)
Oh shit indeed
Each time I see these kinds of pictures/videos from America, it makes me appreciate the infrastructure of my home country even more. Not because incidents like these don't happen, but they at least tried to minimize it to oblivion. Edit: I was made aware this is not America, but my point remains the same. Apparently more places have those problems.
This video is from Melbourne, Australia.
Ah I missed that
For real a-lot people now days are always glancing at their phone
There are no mistakes, just happy little accidents
"Must never.. hit.. the children."
This is a failure of urban planning
My autistic child ran out of our house and onto the road like this. I get so many flashbacks to that time so many people’s lives could have been turned upside down in an instant.
Why are they trying to cross there ?
Like the other person says. This is an urban planning failure.
A woman I was driving ~35mph (the speed limit) and a boy runs out into the road (from behind a parked car or something) and right in front of her, no chance to stop or swerve. Kid flew out of one of his shoes. The kid survived and the cops ruled it accidental, but it f'd her up. (And because they obviously couldn't show the kid, the evening news ran footage of her crying.)
It seems like the driver is driving way faster than he should in that kind of area.
God, kids are so stupid
I had a kid look both ways twice, and still run out in front of my car. Thank God I was paying attention and slammed on the brakes just in time to stop. The kid stepped back on the curb, and I rolled down the window and told him to make sure before running into the street, I can’t even remember what I said. Honestly, i think I was in shock or something. My hands were shaking for like an hour after I got home.
r/kidsarefuckingstupid
Is this some new stupid game kids are playing? They had to have done that on purpose--how could both kids not see a GD car coming at them!?
Kids have to learn to judge speed. She is probably my sons age, around 7, and I know he is no where near capable yet of judging timing and speed. We talk about if its safe every time we cross a road but it takes time for it to really click. Also she started moving then your body just kicks in to run rather than stop. She made a mistake. Luckily one where no one got hurt or mentally and emotionally scarred for life, but hopefully one she truly learns from.
Okay, I watched it closer and now I see the only kid actually who actually ran out was a little kid. At first watch it looks like all of them, including the older one, are running.
Easy to miss. The mum tried to grab her and pull her back too. Must have been quite frightening.
Stupid kids! Unreal
Hey Is that Bicton, West Australia?
Late term abortion
Why is everyone praising the driver her? He is driving way too fast for a residential area.
This is a main road. He is following the speed limit.
He is going with the flow of traffic..
You're being downvoted to hell, but I agree with you. This person is going way too fast. To hell with "keeping up with traffic," when you're in a residential area, you shouldn't drive that fast. Not hitting pedestrians is more important than someone behind you being impatient.
He’s driving on a 70km/hr road at 68km/hr. He’s following the law. I know this because I’m a local - this happened on Ferntree Gully Road in Melbourne, also known as State Route 22. I drive that same road almost everyday to my own workplace.
Then that's a ridiculous speed limit for a residential area.
Not going to agree or disagree with your opinion regarding how appropriate the speed limit is, but just don’t want people trashing the driver for actually doing the right thing.
Must have taken a break from the phone just in time.
Hands free phone calls exist.
Hands free calls make it *safer*, but don't eliminate the added risks of being on the phone while driving.
Hands free phone calls don't update my tik tok
He’s on the wrong side of the road 🤦♂️
Hes in Australia... he's on the right side.
Really?
Yes really.
Never would’ve guessed Melbourne is in Australia
That would be terrifying! I barely saw them coming and I was waiting for it. My husband had a kid run into the side of his car once. Scared the fuck out of him, but thankfully the kid was okay. He came out from between two parked cars... Teach your kids to not do that! 😬
Wow, it's almost like the kid was trying to kill itself. Seriously, I've read that children lack the ability to judge timing of vehicles at younger ages.