Re: Children Killed on M56
 

I see what your saying but the simple bit is, even for a kid, motorway = danger dont go on it. I know ill ignore that and do it anyway.

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yeah it is a big difference, but why did they not know where the kids where? what where they doing all afternoon?

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That we will probably never know.

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Id be mega pee'd off if it was my car that hit them too, think of the damage.

Re: Children Killed on M56
 

such a sad sad loss though, even though i didnt know the children i still feel for them

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Re: Children Killed on M56
 

I find it hard to credit that anyone can assume a 6 year old should be "savvy" enough to be left to his own devices for several hours, particularly when he lives within yards of a busy motorway. No, of course the little boys shouldn't have tried to cross that road but they were little boys. Common sense doesn't always prevail when you're 6.

Kate, I used to roam too at that age but, though I lived on a main road, there was little traffic around and motorways were something you wouldn't have imagined. I had a friend who lived at Harwood Bar who used, regularly, to ride her pony from there to West End to visit me. She did that from the age of 10. You'd be crazy to consider it safe to let a child do it today.

All that aside, however, my point was that these kids were completely unsupervised all afternoon. I seem to remember a good many people who said, in response to a thread of mine about my granddaughter being allowed to ride her bike in front of the house, that they don't let their children out of their sight. Where's the difference with these poor children?

Re: Children Killed on M56
 

There is no difference Westender and if I remember rightly in that thread I said that children should be allowed to play out with supervision. I wonder if these parents will see any come back because IMO it amounts to child neglect.

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We will have to wait and see if anything comes of it.

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I know Westender, not their fault though is it ? Poor little mites. Do feel, though, now is the time to bring back a new campaign for children on pavement/motorway drill.

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That's what I think too, Bernadette. I was more disgusted with the father's attitude, he was mainly concerned with himself, in his position I'd be prostrate with grief and guilt. I don't believe in wrapping children up in cotton wool but there are limits.

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Yes but you or I would never be in the same position. To let a child of that age play out all afternoon is beyond my comprehension but allowed to play out they were and now their lifes have been snuffed out.

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I'm sorry Westender, but how do you know how you would react in such terrible circumstances .. he is in shock after all, and may be things are intepretated incorrectly, only a few hours since this tradegy happened.
Don't be too quick to judge.

Re: Children Killed on M56
 

we are all guilty of being too quick to judge Kate, especially me, but it is a fact that those little one's should of been supervised xx