if you are from the city you will be the first to condem the parents for being irresponsible. i think your wrong. i grew up around kids driving dirt bikes skidoos and boats at a young age. i feel their is no difference between this and letting your kid ride his bike to school unsupervised.
I grew up in areas I‘d bet were a lot more remote then where you did.
There was ATV‘s and trail bikes in most garages.
I never saw 7 year old children riding anything other than 50cc trail bikes, and only on their yards if they were outside alone.
A child that age riding on a 250cc quad alone is madness. If the people in your area think it‘s commonplace, then that doesn‘t make it acceptable. I just means you live in an area where parents are particularly irresponsible.
Thats why there is warnings posted all over ATV‘s and dirtbikes and boats, that children are not permitted to operate the machines on their own. Because there are so many parents who are are not responsible enough to set realistic limits for their child on their own.
The strength of a 7 year old child is not enough to handle the potential rate of acceleration on that kind of powerful ATV. If a kid pinned the throttle in first gear from zero, he would probably find himself flying off the back of the quad. Considering that the child would probably weigh about 60 pounds, it would accelerate even faster than you would imagine if youre used to riding one yourself.
As for riding your bike to school alone, well that‘s the weakest part of your argument. Kids that age can probably push their bike up to 40kph when they ride down a steep hill. Give them a 250cc ATV, and suddenly they can go over 100kph effortlessly, uphill, downhill, over jumps (which we know kids love to do) and pretty much wherever they please. They lack the perception to properly understand distances vs speed vs time required to stop.
They don‘t have the reflexes required for emergency driving (like how to avoid the dog that runs out in front of them, or how to make a decision to just apply the brakes and take the chance running the dog over when its too late to turn) they would likely just slam the handlebars as far to one side as they could, even at top speed.
This kid that died only serves to validate what I‘m saying. He hit a static object. A telephone pole. Not very hard to miss. He was obviously out of control, which in my opinion is whenever a 7 year old child is riding a machine with that kind of power.
Yes it‘s sad, and we should feel bad for his familiy, but if we never held people accountable for being negligent, then accidents like this would happen far more often. There has to be consequences for poor decision making.
I really need to type faster or keep my answers short, otherwise you guys will always be taking the words out of my mouth. :blotto:
