Death of a child

That's a nice poem.
It's just sad, so many lives taken, and how many more are there out there that arent written upon here? And someone so young. :(

rip little dude

do you people on here still put out ghost bikes in remembrance of people who have gone to the sky
would be nice to put a ghost style kids bike there

Devastating. My thoughts go out to the family and friends.

The comments section of the article is a disgrace by the way, a bikeradar style helmet debate started up, can we love bomb it please?

Southall is a total mess to cycle through.

RIP little guy.

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

True, which is nice. But we don't really know what happened, and it may not have been the driver's fault. And it sucks, b/c the driver has to live with knowing he killed a child. Even if he wasn't to blame for the accident, it still is quite a burden to carry, I'd imagine.

A lot of drivers don't pay attention or don't seem to know how to share the road with cyclists. But some do. And a lot of cyclists (especially kids) don't really follow the rules of the road. It's a bad combination.

I feel bad for his parents (and his uncle).

thisi s why im afriad of riding

... it may not have been the driver's fault. And it sucks, b/c the driver has to live with knowing he killed a child..

exacly. the driver isnt to blame everytime, without doubt they are sometimes. but either way, i wouldnt want to know that id killed someone and the impact it will have had on their family and friends.i wouldnt be able to live with that

RIP.

Rip

Terrible news RIP.

For me though, it reads as though he was cycling on the pavement, but was killed when crossing a busy road. From the article...

He said: “I had always warned him about that road and told him to be careful. I always told him to cross the road at the traffic lights but this time he didn't.

RIP Little Dude.

awful awful news.

man that's awful. RIP

RIP little man

yesterday i had a really polite little kid come into the shop with the most fucked bike i have seen in a while. i felt really sorry for him mainly because he was trying to fix it for about an hour with no avail. i managed to single speed it, fix the punctures front and back and get the front brake working (half the back brake was missing)

it felt nice to help this little kid because he was so grateful and polite which most little kids aren't.

This is happening too often for my liking, I hate seeing threads like this. RIP