Parents

Whatever you do stress to your kids the dangers of crossing the highway(besides illegal). I had a wreck wed night(9-8-99) because a 11yr old kid pulled out of his drive way on his ATV with out looking or stopping !! I was able to avoid him by only inches at the most. If I hadn't hit the brakes when I did I would have surely killed him. I ended up in a fairly deep ditch(no damage luckly) and had to be towed out and call the Highway Patrol. The kid is fine and so am I now(still a little shaking), but he is in some big trouble. They charged him as a juvenile and he will have to go to court. He's lucky that's the only lesson he has to deal with !!

I just bought a new Honda 450S last weekend and this has put a whole new light on riding for me !



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Stump '99 Foreman S

 

I guess this is one big problem that some people forget about when they teach their kids to ride. A child who is a great rider out on the trails may not have enough life experience to make decisions when they aren't being watched closely by a parent or other adult.

That's probably why we have a driver age limit for cars. A child of 13 or 14 may be physically able to get in the family Tarus and drive it down the road, but I'm not sure I want to be around when they make decisions about pulling out into traffic!!! Yipes!

I hope the parents of this kid look at it as his one "lucky" break, and keep him off the quad when they're not around!

Pam

[This message has been edited by PamFalcioni (edited 09-10-1999).]

 

They say that they have told him MANY times not to go across the road. I think that is the only one they own so I wonder if they have ever taught him anything on it. His step dad said this his mom was "an old harley girl and didn't really like helments" so I wonder.

My mom would have sold mine if I had did that. I am looking for a good used one, I was hoping his would do that.