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   Velocipedestrienne 🇿🇦 (hayiwena@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 10:27:33 JST Velocipedestrienne 🇿🇦

   The mom message chain is sharing that another one on my middle schoolers' friends who lives on our neighborhood got hit by a driver on his way to school today. He usually bikes on the sidewalk in the area of the arterial streets.

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     mark (atleagle@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 10:27:29 JST mark

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     @HayiWena every time I have been hit by a car I was the one following all the laws. Paint and behavior will not keep anyone safe. Cross walks and stop signs are distractions to anyone not in a car that makes them think they are safe. That thinking gets us killed

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     Velocipedestrienne 🇿🇦 (hayiwena@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 10:27:30 JST Velocipedestrienne 🇿🇦

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     These three 13yo kids bike train to jazz band/orchestra at 6:50am. They ride on the sidewalk along the 30mph street. They cross at the signal. They do exactly what they are supposed to do. They must have been stuck by a driver in the intersection.

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     Velocipedestrienne 🇿🇦 (hayiwena@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 10:27:31 JST Velocipedestrienne 🇿🇦

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     All three kids are injured, two with broken limbs.

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     Velocipedestrienne 🇿🇦 (hayiwena@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 10:27:31 JST Velocipedestrienne 🇿🇦

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     I'm sure people think I'm pathetic not letting my kid bike 1.5mi to/from school and carpooling/city bus home. These kids were going the safer 2-mi route. I'm exhausted. This is now the 4th, 5th & 6th kids in his IMMEDIATE friend group struck by drivers going to/from this specific school from our neighborhood.

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     Velocipedestrienne 🇿🇦 (hayiwena@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 10:32:25 JST Velocipedestrienne 🇿🇦

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     @ATLeagle I'm sorry you have been hit by a driver at all, never mind more than once.

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     mark (atleagle@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 10:39:13 JST mark

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     @HayiWena thanks. It's crazy how frequently this happens to people, and there is so rarely any real consequences for the drivers. No one changes behaviors.

     I have actually been yelled at by a drivers that hit me because the car could have been dented.

     I quit running when I was shopping for a snub nosed pistol and a chest holster, and I remembered a youth learning that i shouldnt be doing things that require guns for safety