Happened to me a few years ago, busy street full of parked cars and chuck out time at the juniors so I was driving very much with 'due care' at 10-15mph as it was obvious there are hazards around and sure enough, young kid pops out running between two cars, I jam on and stopped with mm to spare, his parents glared at me, but I assumed that was more shock than anger..
And that's the thing, when you have scores of kids leaving school on a busy street that has many parked cars, to me, 'Due Care' is going down to those much lower speeds.. however, with slightly better visibility and less kids around you would naturally be doing closer to the speed limit..
I had a much more minor near miss a couple of weeks ago, school kid on bike on pavement decides he wants to jump from the pavement to the road, does a basic glance a couple of times, must have seen me, but still jumped off right in front of me.. I was aware of him, but as there was grass between pavement and road, I did still get up to 20mph and was surprised he still went for it, but braked, avoided and hit the horn at which point he then did a proper life saver and must have been surprised.. I didn't give him any grief, and safely overtook further down the road..
I find it's better to let people stew, if you get all angry at them, natural defences kick in and that can almost have the opposite effect.. The quick horn was there to alert him I was there, you can see he looked very surprised..
And that's the thing, when you have scores of kids leaving school on a busy street that has many parked cars, to me, 'Due Care' is going down to those much lower speeds.. however, with slightly better visibility and less kids around you would naturally be doing closer to the speed limit..
I had a much more minor near miss a couple of weeks ago, school kid on bike on pavement decides he wants to jump from the pavement to the road, does a basic glance a couple of times, must have seen me, but still jumped off right in front of me.. I was aware of him, but as there was grass between pavement and road, I did still get up to 20mph and was surprised he still went for it, but braked, avoided and hit the horn at which point he then did a proper life saver and must have been surprised.. I didn't give him any grief, and safely overtook further down the road..
I find it's better to let people stew, if you get all angry at them, natural defences kick in and that can almost have the opposite effect.. The quick horn was there to alert him I was there, you can see he looked very surprised..
