#28738
fcd
Flatchatter

    A couple of things.

    You can’t actually force control over someone else’s behaviour. Plus while you can apply some sort of management to reduce risk, you can never completely eliminate risk to zero.
    So if you’ve made reasonable attempts to make your community aware of the risk, then there’s not much else you can do. (You shouldn’t have to give yourself an ulcer worrying over this.)

    Let’s be really clear here; Kids on scooters do not hurt cars.
    It’s the vehicle movements that cause the hazard. So rather than stopping the kids actually forming the community that us adults often fail to do, and having some healthy outdoor fun to go with it, how about directing some energy to addressing the cars’ problem? Even in the event of a collision I’d say (as a non-lawyer) that the vehicle driver makes a much-much larger contribution to ‘negligence’ than the OC does.

    Plus letting the kids have some more free rein to scoot more often will tend to improve their safety – other members of the community will have seen them and have every reason to expect them to present on the driveway. It’s a phenomena that’s been studied and reported on that drivers will drive to the conditions they see/expect to see. Such as studies of bicycle rider safety which show that the more riders are in an area the rate of crashes (per 1000) will actually fall because of a safety in numbers/noticeability effect.

    So are drivers expecting to see a driveway free and clear to ‘speed’ on, or are they expecting a driveway ‘congested’ with other non-vehicle users?