[Aurornis]

As a parent, these comments are always so weird to read. Kids play outside, including unsupervised still. Kids getting hit by drivers is statistically very rare (though no less tragic)

Suggesting that “many” of the kids who “try” to play outside get killed by cars is the kind of conclusion you can only arrive at by living life through hyperbolic headlines or the dramatic evening news.

[CalRobert]

Having a toddler who’s a runner radicalised me. Every walk outside required a death grip.

[WarOnPrivacy]

> Having a toddler who’s a runner radicalised me. Every walk outside required a death grip.

Ha. I had twins. One was a sprinter/climber and the other was One Slow Plodding Step At A Time. We took most of our walks at 10pm.

[ozim]

I think I have seen in the news at least 3 separate instances where parent drove over and killed their own child in their front yard while just trying to drive out. It is like over my entire lifetime so I may made up and it was 2 or once - but I cannot forget it as I imagine such tragedy even writing about while never been nowhere close to such an event it makes me feel uneasy in my chest and stomach.

[CalRobert]

https://www.kidsandcars.org/frontovers/facts has more data

[rightbyte]

It is like the road has some sort of lure for them.

[const_cast]

I think you're just out of touch with reality. Maybe the fact you're a parent has tainted your view - some type of bias against admitting things might suck.

When I was a kid, the amount of kids outside was easily orders of magnitude more. Things I did as a kid are pretty much unthinkable now. I mean, as young as 7 I was riding my bike miles away.

It's not that things are worse now, it's that enough kids died that newer parents are much more cautious.

[tmnvix]

I think things are different now, at least where I live.

Take a look at this photo from 1995: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F5...

Note how visible all of those primary school children would be to anyone using one of those cars in the car park. Now imagine the same scene today with the car park full of modern cars (and 'trucks') where the bottom of any of the vehicle's windows would be well above many of those children's heads.

[rightbyte]

I think it is implied that they are not allowed to by their parents and thus not killed?

There is no way 1.5 to 4yo can play unsupervised, as in grabbing distance from adults, in areas close to traffic? Maybe 4yo can do with yelling distance from adults.

Like, if people wouldn't care so much as they do, I would guess there would be a lot of fatalities.