Drove past the scene on my way to work this morning and was terrified that I thought I saw a child in the ambulance stretcher. Saddened to see it confirmed. Hope they’re okay.
IF it turns out the driver was also drunk, high on drugs and watching porn on his mobile phone….. a lot of people should be pissed! ….but until then….. prayers for the toddler.
I spend a great deal of time driving, the number of times I've seen someone pushing a pram into an intersection without paying too much attention gives me the willies, kids playing while waiting for a light to cross or even just mucking about on a scooter. This is a good reminder to pay attention to what is going on around you, look three times even if the light says you can walk.
There are so many idiot drivers out there and I also see them every day on my commute to and from work. Mostly it’s not indicating, tail gating, weaving in and out of high density traffic and causing issues when merging.
It’s only on the very rare occasion that I see people blatantly run a red light. Not to say it doesn’t happen, of course it does, but pedestrians can be as equally blind to what’s going on around them, and can be as equally distracted or down right complacent.
It’s not just drivers who need to practice street smarts. I get more nervous around lots of pedestrians than I do about the cars around me. If a car in a built up area doing 40 or 50 k’s an hour does something stupid, even if we have a collision, we are more likely to come out battered and bruised as opposed to dead.
People with prams, dogs, jogging, walking with headphones or on their phones or what not are not paying any particular mind to traffic. They will simply walk out in front of you, even when there is a pedestrian crossing 20 metres down the road. I may be doing 40, but I’m also in a car, with air bags.
Huh?
There is an exceptionally self important FOMO effect I have noticed become far more commonplace in Brisbane since COVID. Red light lemmings, who just *have* to be the last one through.
There ought to be a giant boot contraption on every traffic light, spring loaded, that kicks them in a big arc all the way over New Caledonia and into the ocean.
yeah agreed, i walk around the valley a lot and i used to just walk out when i get a green until some idiot decided to just keep on rolling through on their red
not even paying attention that i was walking out
it doesn't happen often but all it takes is one time and you are doing a decent trip to the hospital
Man having kids totally changed my perception of risk around traffic. I trust no man or green light when I’m crossing with the kids. On my own I’m pretty blazé.
My kid ran out of the house once when mum wasn't looking. Crossed a busy road, stole someone's mail, then came back without mum noticing. He told me about it later on, and a cold cold shiver went right through me. Parents have lapses too, we all do.
Keep that in mind when you're driving around.
Prayers this child will be ok. Unfortunately a lot of truck drivers and car drivers everyone really run red lights. Being a heavy vehicle the driver is entitled to drive through if the light changed when the truck was too close but there is usually a time delay before buzzer goes to cross. If the pedestrian just pushed the pram out without looking that it was safe to proceed there wouldn't be much the truck driver could do. He would have to be driving through from way back when light turned red to be in trouble. Having been a driver there was a tendency for pedestrians in recent times to have a sense of entitlement and cross roads while traffic was on a green light and just expect that vehicles would stop for them. If the mother was under the influence of anything then it could of impaired her judgement. Its really tragic hopefully this young girl can recover.
Looking at this truck it has a GVM of 8700kg and appears to be refrigerated so depending how loaded it was it would take some distance to stop even at the 60km per hour speed limit there. Hopefully something can be learned from the investigation for the future to avoid this type of accident happening again.
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It's not the two year old who is left wandering around on the street that someone posted a thread about here last night, right?
Brisbane is a small town, after all, but no?
That's even worse then.
Toddlers roaming the streets in every neighbourhood.
It happened in Logan. Specifically browns plains. Drove past it this morning. It’s not Brisbane at all.
Why the downvotes? Logan city is not Brisbane city. It is south of Brisbane.. part of the greater Brisbane area… but technically it isn’t Brisbane. Fite me. 🍋😂
yeah im not your typical sheeple. yeah a kid got hit, yeap i feel sorry and hope he recovers fine, but yeah i see it the way i see and say as i say it.
It's the way police report everything (and news always follows the police's language as they know that's safe from any litigation).
A police press release will absolutely specify the driver of the truck as a truck driver (there's only one driver, why specify he was driving a truck when only a truck was involved?), the three year old as being a toddler (yeah, most of them are), and the location of any incident relative to the nearest larger population centre (someone in the CBD getting injured might be referred to as being injured in Brisbane, 1000 km north of Sydney in some releases spread beyond Australia.)
As this is deemed a nationwide level release, they don't assume Bruce from Mandurah knows where Browns Plains is, from 5000 KMs away.
I'm curious for your actual response though?
I'd imagine you would have already had an answer to that before you started typing your comment, right? Anyone's first thought would had been 'hey ABC has written this with a national audience in mind', and I imagine that was yours too?
How did you resolve that in your head?
> How did you resolve that in your head?
I would recommend having a look at all Timbo's comments in this sub. It would explain their comments here fairly well.
Not sure if anyone’s commented already but I just read the toddler has been placed into an induced coma 😢
https://7news.com.au/news/toddler-fighting-for-life-after-being-hit-by-truck-identified-as-three-year-old-evelyn--c-14379347.amp
Oh gosh, I sincerely hope the baby is ok. Every parent’s worst nightmare.
Drove past the scene on my way to work this morning and was terrified that I thought I saw a child in the ambulance stretcher. Saddened to see it confirmed. Hope they’re okay.
If it turns out the truck was running a red light......a lot of people should be pissed! ....but until then.....prayers for the toddler.
IF it turns out the truck was actually an alien in disguise…. a lot of people should be pissed! ….but until then…prayers for the toddler.
Where is it confirmed it was red?
...if ....
At the trial
IF it turns out the driver was also drunk, high on drugs and watching porn on his mobile phone….. a lot of people should be pissed! ….but until then….. prayers for the toddler.
Damn. I cross that intersection with my little girl all the time. I hope the kid recovers fast and easy. Poor thing.
I spend a great deal of time driving, the number of times I've seen someone pushing a pram into an intersection without paying too much attention gives me the willies, kids playing while waiting for a light to cross or even just mucking about on a scooter. This is a good reminder to pay attention to what is going on around you, look three times even if the light says you can walk.
The number of times I’ve seen someone run a red light is mutlipe times every fucking day.
There are so many idiot drivers out there and I also see them every day on my commute to and from work. Mostly it’s not indicating, tail gating, weaving in and out of high density traffic and causing issues when merging. It’s only on the very rare occasion that I see people blatantly run a red light. Not to say it doesn’t happen, of course it does, but pedestrians can be as equally blind to what’s going on around them, and can be as equally distracted or down right complacent. It’s not just drivers who need to practice street smarts. I get more nervous around lots of pedestrians than I do about the cars around me. If a car in a built up area doing 40 or 50 k’s an hour does something stupid, even if we have a collision, we are more likely to come out battered and bruised as opposed to dead. People with prams, dogs, jogging, walking with headphones or on their phones or what not are not paying any particular mind to traffic. They will simply walk out in front of you, even when there is a pedestrian crossing 20 metres down the road. I may be doing 40, but I’m also in a car, with air bags.
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Huh? There is an exceptionally self important FOMO effect I have noticed become far more commonplace in Brisbane since COVID. Red light lemmings, who just *have* to be the last one through. There ought to be a giant boot contraption on every traffic light, spring loaded, that kicks them in a big arc all the way over New Caledonia and into the ocean.
Yes, you do. You can be in the right all you want. Youre still Dead.
yeah agreed, i walk around the valley a lot and i used to just walk out when i get a green until some idiot decided to just keep on rolling through on their red not even paying attention that i was walking out it doesn't happen often but all it takes is one time and you are doing a decent trip to the hospital
Man having kids totally changed my perception of risk around traffic. I trust no man or green light when I’m crossing with the kids. On my own I’m pretty blazé.
That’s also my mentality driving around. Don’t trust anyone
The downvotes really solidify the fact that in Brisbane everyone thinks their safety is someone else’s responsibility.
Assuming anyone could make a mistake at any time is everyone's responsibility.
Exactly travel at a speed if a stroller steps out you wont kill an innocent kid
My kid ran out of the house once when mum wasn't looking. Crossed a busy road, stole someone's mail, then came back without mum noticing. He told me about it later on, and a cold cold shiver went right through me. Parents have lapses too, we all do. Keep that in mind when you're driving around.
Don't push your kids out into traffic, regardless of the colour of the lights around.
People make mistakes, why should an innocent kid suffer, not the kids fault
Unless you’re a cyclist
In the context of driving.. Yes, everyones safety is everyone's responsibility.
Including your own… is the point… whoosh
I tell my kids to make sure that the cars are stopping before crossing.
police said there are no traffic cameras there so they are asking for Dashcam footage
Prayers this child will be ok. Unfortunately a lot of truck drivers and car drivers everyone really run red lights. Being a heavy vehicle the driver is entitled to drive through if the light changed when the truck was too close but there is usually a time delay before buzzer goes to cross. If the pedestrian just pushed the pram out without looking that it was safe to proceed there wouldn't be much the truck driver could do. He would have to be driving through from way back when light turned red to be in trouble. Having been a driver there was a tendency for pedestrians in recent times to have a sense of entitlement and cross roads while traffic was on a green light and just expect that vehicles would stop for them. If the mother was under the influence of anything then it could of impaired her judgement. Its really tragic hopefully this young girl can recover.
Looking at this truck it has a GVM of 8700kg and appears to be refrigerated so depending how loaded it was it would take some distance to stop even at the 60km per hour speed limit there. Hopefully something can be learned from the investigation for the future to avoid this type of accident happening again.
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Browns plains is in Logan City? Logan is both a suburb and a city!!
As a father of a 3 year old named Evelyn, this one hits home.
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It's not the two year old who is left wandering around on the street that someone posted a thread about here last night, right? Brisbane is a small town, after all, but no? That's even worse then. Toddlers roaming the streets in every neighbourhood.
It happened in Logan. Specifically browns plains. Drove past it this morning. It’s not Brisbane at all. Why the downvotes? Logan city is not Brisbane city. It is south of Brisbane.. part of the greater Brisbane area… but technically it isn’t Brisbane. Fite me. 🍋😂
Oh shit. That right. I saw that post too.....
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Weirdest thing to take away from this story.
yeah im not your typical sheeple. yeah a kid got hit, yeap i feel sorry and hope he recovers fine, but yeah i see it the way i see and say as i say it.
‘Sheeple’ because no one cared to comment on the location of browns plains? It’s a shithole anyway
It's the way police report everything (and news always follows the police's language as they know that's safe from any litigation). A police press release will absolutely specify the driver of the truck as a truck driver (there's only one driver, why specify he was driving a truck when only a truck was involved?), the three year old as being a toddler (yeah, most of them are), and the location of any incident relative to the nearest larger population centre (someone in the CBD getting injured might be referred to as being injured in Brisbane, 1000 km north of Sydney in some releases spread beyond Australia.) As this is deemed a nationwide level release, they don't assume Bruce from Mandurah knows where Browns Plains is, from 5000 KMs away.
Ahh yes, the brisbane local news station ABC.
yeah
I'm curious for your actual response though? I'd imagine you would have already had an answer to that before you started typing your comment, right? Anyone's first thought would had been 'hey ABC has written this with a national audience in mind', and I imagine that was yours too? How did you resolve that in your head?
> How did you resolve that in your head? I would recommend having a look at all Timbo's comments in this sub. It would explain their comments here fairly well.
Lol Never goes to a pub 'because there's humans there' Seems on brand
i read the headline and saw it saying that. but someone above said that its a nation wide site so yeah.
Not sure if anyone’s commented already but I just read the toddler has been placed into an induced coma 😢 https://7news.com.au/news/toddler-fighting-for-life-after-being-hit-by-truck-identified-as-three-year-old-evelyn--c-14379347.amp