Two Amazing Road Accident News Reports

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-28088323

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-28090520

How can anybody be so stupid ? I am flabberghasted !

[pixie373]

The first one is pure stupidity. The second one is sad.

[Canary42]

The second one is understandable with an inexperienced 12-year old (but who the heck let him have the motorbike in the first place) - the first one is criminally insane and should get a lifetime ban IMO.

[mikey4444]

Where were the parents of the child in the second case ? Are they like the parents on the housing estate where I live, that let their young children ride motorbikes ? Its been happening for weeks now this summer. I have informed the Police and they ride around in their cars but see nothing apparently. I am all for employing the disabled but we must stop employing these blind Policemen.

[pixie373]

Hard to tell, Mikey. Did the parents know?

[ToraToraTora]

natural selection at work!

[pixie373]

Probably not, ttt. One was a 12-year-old and if the other had had an accident, four under-2s would have come off worse.

[Gromit]

Gypsies me thinks.

[mikey4444]

That possibility did come to my mind as well Gromit...there is a touch of the raggle-taggle gypsy boy in the 2nd report

[ToraToraTora]

Yes pixie but they are the children of idiots, mother nature is not sentimental!

[Gromit]

News report from 22 May 2012 

// The first residents have moved on to a new £1.4m travellers' site in East Yorkshire.

The 22-pitch Government-funded site at Woldgate, Bridlington, was built to replace a nearby facility on a former household waste tip which was deemed unfit for its purpose. //

And from your link about the 12 year old motorcyclist...

// A 12-year-old boy riding a motorcycle with a three-year-old passenger has been seriously injured in a crash with a car in Bridlington.

Police said the vehicles collided on Woldgate, at 12:40 BST on Saturday. //

[EDDIE51]

I regularly see kids who can not be over 13 or 14 at most, riding mopeds, 'mini motor bikes ' and quad bikes up and down the street without helmets. Problem is there is never a policeman around and if anyone reports them (which I have done several times) they disappear as soon as the see or hear a police car. I have talked to the police and they say it is hopeless as they have to catch them red handed.