Death of a child

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Rest in peace, young rider.

This happened yesterday. :(

incredibly sad, rip

that is terrible news

"killed by a car"

was it a runaway, did it have a mind of it's own like Stephen King's "Christine" ?

shabby reporting, but another tragic loss of life, kids should be safe riding bikes, everyone should be...it's not right that the roads are death traps

It's so sad when anyone looses their life, but one so young, breaks my heart.
RIP little guy.

Terrible.

Poor little bloke.

:(

terrible shame. a wasted life.

for fuck's sake. all i can say is its just unfair. RIP little buddy

the comments on the page are good. some twat blames the kid and quickly 4 reasonable comments shoot him down...seems the Even Standard readers are even getting more clued on about cycling.

the other interesting thing is that the focus of the story is completely on the kid - nothing about the driver or the situation? was he going to fast? was it a shit junction? were there any cycle measures in the area? i agree with the comment -shabby reporting

RIP
xxx

"killed by a car"

was it a runaway, did it have a mind of it's own like Stephen King's "Christine" ?

shabby reporting, but another tragic loss of life, kids should be safe riding bikes, everyone should be...it's not right that the roads are death traps

i agree.

Rip.

This is horrible :(

That's tragic. So so sad. RIP young man.

saw this in the london paper earlier. poor little kid :(

I'm really fed up of seeing these threads. They're so bleak and the hollow feeling in your gut when you read about them is just awful. Particularly when you hear or read soundbites from those involved or related to the victim. It really personalises it horribly and it hits home hard.
And all we seem to be able to do is just type three little letters. RIP...
It's sickening to feel quite so useless in these situations.
Road deaths seem so horribly inevitable and no matter how many marches or petitions or we go on or sign, I can't see a way of avoiding them completely which is tragic. Even if the "statistics" are taken down to just one death a year, governing agencies will still call that a major victory - and it would be - but not for the families of kids like Christopher :(

+1 CYOA, a horrible sinking feeling everytime.

my heart goes out to his family. such a terrible thing to happen to someone so young. his poor, poor cousin.

As a father of two my thoughts are with his family. I know that general the streets are safe but only just this Sunday i was almost squashed between a car and railing. The car the shoots round the roundway then decides it's gonna pull-over!!!

I was so freaked but my s**t just kick in and i just tore outta there, i was so glad not to be eating
road that i didn't look back! The streets are never going to be free from idiots behind the wheel
but i hope that more drivers realize that the road are not JUST for them.

Rip

so so sad, rest in peace little one

Such sad news.

So sad

RIP Christopher

The death of a baby is like a stone cast into the stillness of a quiet pool;
the concentric ripples of despair sweep out in all directions,
affecting many, many people.
--De Frain, 1991

i read about this, so so tragic. diver stopped, no arrest made.

poor child and family.