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Anti 4x4 BBC. Again.

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Boggert:
More here...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3101602.ece

hobbit:
I saw the report on the tv about this, it was mentioned by one of the locals that these unlicensed machines are use a lot around the are by the farmers, and often are seen on the public road (probably travelling between their fields/land), driven by adults and other children too


It was said these were a 1000cc models, not your basic little electric thing, but not for the public highway as stated, and cost around £1200 each, the picture they showed was quite a large machine I thought for somebody their ages, but pics can be decieving, and not that well up on these quads

Its bad news all round when something like this happens, especially in these circumstances and time of year

Disco Matt:
Maybe we are being a little over-sensitive in this case (although I agree with those who feel the parents were ultimately to blame - a seven year old child on a 1000cc anything is a disaster waiting to happen).

However, the BBC has a very noticable anti-4x4 bias. Every accident report involving a 4x4 has that mentioned in the headline (Not "Man injured in crash" but "Man injured in 4x4 crash") even when the nature of the vehicle had nothing to do with the accident.

Oddly enough you never see the other side of it - "Mans' life saved by his 4x4 in collision with lorry" isn't likely to appear as a headline...

discowoman:
well this explains a lot - this is what they were riding..
http://www.jaksquads.co.uk/quadzilla-proshark-typer.htm
read the Tag line....And they let a kid ride it??? Madness
also 1st in the list of features
NOT SUITABLE FOR NOVICE RIDERS
and it runs on 100 octane fuel..... :evil:

Niel:
Not sure all the 'facts' are in the public realm with this one, I have no sympathy if she looses her licence for drink/drugged driving, however if she'd been sober and a child on an out of control quad appeared without room or time to stop/avoid then I suspect the Police might well have arrested her so she could be tested for drink/drugs and to protect her from the childs parents, it also facilitates siezing her range-rover for inspection, she seems to have been released very quickly, bailed and WITHOUT charge, so I suspect there's a lot more to this story....
The father needs to be dealt with by the courts as well, reading the Times report: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3101602.ece it would seem they'd gone some distance on the road illegally already, being on the return jouney. The Express report: http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/29622/Girl-7-killed-riding-her-quad-bike-behind-dad-s-car-in-the-dark seems to indicate the girl was taken home by her father before an ambulance was called, perhaps in the hope of avoiding it being reported to the Police???  Another report seems to indicate it was the ambulance service that called the police:  http://news.scotsman.com/uk/Girl-7-dies-after-crash.3624493.jp and that the woman driver was arrested some time after the fact... And the stun: http://thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article626589.ece

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