Id imagine this will be becoming more common in the future until people and parents realise the risk of scooters. Regardless of fault and blame they are on the road.
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Feel sorry for the family but it has to be said that under the new rules for scooters should a 14 year old be on one, also interested to know if the one he was riding was limited to 20km an hour.
I regularly drive through the city where the speed limit for cars is 30km/hr and every day electric scooters pass me doing between 40-60km/hr. Two days ago a lad that looked about 12 flew past me and cut across oncoming traffic who had to break hard, there was a squad car that saw the whole thing and didnt react.
Not directly related to this but I saw today in another article on RTÉ that more than 1 in 4 deaths on the road so far this year involved motorbikes and almost all of them involved speed.
For suck a small percentage of overall road users the fact that motorbikes are over a quarter of all fatalities this year is crazy.
Lot of psychopaths in this comment section so far.
Does nobody take nice pictures of their kids anymore? Every time there’s a story of a child missing, or an accident happening the picture always looks like the family took it begrudgingly through the bottom of a beer bottle.
When will people realise the danger of cars?
Bikes and scooters are not that dangerous, cars are.
Utterly senseless.
My heart goes out to the family.
I don’t know what happened to this poor kid, and am not gonna assume.
I have seen one incident with an e-scooter, and it went as such:
In a notoriously narrow and busy car park at a supermarket in the town I live in, there is a pedestrian crossing running through the centre of the car park. Now it is tough to see people walking on this pedestrian crossing at the best of time, as the cars park right up to the crossing. So this woman and her child (about 10ish) were riding an e-scooter on this pedestrian crossing at definitely running speed and crashed into the side of a jeep. The woman on the e-scooter was shouting at the driver of the jeep and then just took off back on her scooter and carried on down the pedestrian crossing as if it couldn’t possibly happen again.
Like everything, there are people who use things properly, and people who don’t, and I think we will see more incidents with e-scooters.
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It’s a tragedy when any young person dies, particularly in a road accident.
I used to travel that road daily and like many in rural Ireland it had dense hedges, overhanging trees, and blind turns.
It’s not the place for a e-scooters.
Unfortunately people in Kilkenny wouldn’t be confident that the father of the deceased impressed safe use on the thing upon the younglad who died, irrespective of the fact that he was underage.
He has several convictions in the district court for drunk driving in a sulkie, including one at night where after drinking several pints he tried to escape a patrol car, and ended up injuring his unfortunate horse when he drove into a wall.
It’s still a tragedy that the boy died,.no argument. But like in certain parts of Dublin where parents buy their kids scramblers death or serious injury is a predictable outcome when younglads are given a free hand with horses, bikes or other fast modes of transport.
The comments here are horrific
A 14 year old boy is dead
Victim blaming and talking about punishing people who drive these scooters dangerously….ffs
Absolutely tragic. I wouldn’t be starting with his family, obviously, but we absolutely need to start cracking down on under age scooter riding and double-up riding too. Everyone gets far too focused on the method of transport than the fact they can all be used safely.
They are death traps, we’ve all seen people take ridiculous risks on them, there’s just no margin for error, one false move and you’re going flying through the air and landing right on your head.
No, I don’t farm anything. I’m just disgusted at the comments. I too am free to share my opinion and I feel that the focus of this should be maybe something like saying how awful it is that a young lad has died needlessly in a tragedy, rather than people saying ‘ram them!’.
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Id imagine this will be becoming more common in the future until people and parents realise the risk of scooters. Regardless of fault and blame they are on the road.
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Feel sorry for the family but it has to be said that under the new rules for scooters should a 14 year old be on one, also interested to know if the one he was riding was limited to 20km an hour.
I regularly drive through the city where the speed limit for cars is 30km/hr and every day electric scooters pass me doing between 40-60km/hr. Two days ago a lad that looked about 12 flew past me and cut across oncoming traffic who had to break hard, there was a squad car that saw the whole thing and didnt react.
Not directly related to this but I saw today in another article on RTÉ that more than 1 in 4 deaths on the road so far this year involved motorbikes and almost all of them involved speed.
For suck a small percentage of overall road users the fact that motorbikes are over a quarter of all fatalities this year is crazy.
Lot of psychopaths in this comment section so far.
Does nobody take nice pictures of their kids anymore? Every time there’s a story of a child missing, or an accident happening the picture always looks like the family took it begrudgingly through the bottom of a beer bottle.
When will people realise the danger of cars?
Bikes and scooters are not that dangerous, cars are.
Utterly senseless.
My heart goes out to the family.
I don’t know what happened to this poor kid, and am not gonna assume.
I have seen one incident with an e-scooter, and it went as such:
In a notoriously narrow and busy car park at a supermarket in the town I live in, there is a pedestrian crossing running through the centre of the car park. Now it is tough to see people walking on this pedestrian crossing at the best of time, as the cars park right up to the crossing. So this woman and her child (about 10ish) were riding an e-scooter on this pedestrian crossing at definitely running speed and crashed into the side of a jeep. The woman on the e-scooter was shouting at the driver of the jeep and then just took off back on her scooter and carried on down the pedestrian crossing as if it couldn’t possibly happen again.
Like everything, there are people who use things properly, and people who don’t, and I think we will see more incidents with e-scooters.
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It’s a tragedy when any young person dies, particularly in a road accident.
I used to travel that road daily and like many in rural Ireland it had dense hedges, overhanging trees, and blind turns.
It’s not the place for a e-scooters.
Unfortunately people in Kilkenny wouldn’t be confident that the father of the deceased impressed safe use on the thing upon the younglad who died, irrespective of the fact that he was underage.
He has several convictions in the district court for drunk driving in a sulkie, including one at night where after drinking several pints he tried to escape a patrol car, and ended up injuring his unfortunate horse when he drove into a wall.
It’s still a tragedy that the boy died,.no argument. But like in certain parts of Dublin where parents buy their kids scramblers death or serious injury is a predictable outcome when younglads are given a free hand with horses, bikes or other fast modes of transport.
The comments here are horrific
A 14 year old boy is dead
Victim blaming and talking about punishing people who drive these scooters dangerously….ffs
Absolutely tragic. I wouldn’t be starting with his family, obviously, but we absolutely need to start cracking down on under age scooter riding and double-up riding too. Everyone gets far too focused on the method of transport than the fact they can all be used safely.
They are death traps, we’ve all seen people take ridiculous risks on them, there’s just no margin for error, one false move and you’re going flying through the air and landing right on your head.
No, I don’t farm anything. I’m just disgusted at the comments. I too am free to share my opinion and I feel that the focus of this should be maybe something like saying how awful it is that a young lad has died needlessly in a tragedy, rather than people saying ‘ram them!’.