Driver who killed child outside school was doing three-point turn: police

[phreeky]

Left foot braking would prevent this

I did the school run in the S1 RX7 one day and I could see the chassis rails of the Hilux dual cab fourbie parked next to me in the playground come parking area. When I started the car and it lumped at idle the place froze and everyone stared at me like I was some unworthy interloper.

I used to do some daycare runs in the Bluebird with stupidly loud exhaust and got some dirty looks (and not the good kind of dirty). Fuck 'em and their stupid SUVs.

[Kyle]

I hope she does some jail time to serve as a reminder to other school run warriors that they're not as invincible as they think they are.

People just need to chill the fuck out, and slow down in areas heavily populated by pedestrians. Shopping centre carparks are no different.

Yeah this fur sure.

Living in a country town everyone is pretty chilled up here, you get the occasional bogan whore mum who drives like a fuckwit but generally pretty good.

Down here in Penrith however.. Fuck me swinging cunts are in way too much of a hurry! Preschools/high schools.. All the same!

[_Marc_]

Would that be a permanent police records and never wipe away after 3 years when the points usually gets given back?

Even after you get the points back, shit is still on record, i had to get a RTA print out of my driving licence recently and still had everything on it since my P plates.

[XXX19X]

Pussy pass is already being waved furiously.

25 year old male does this; culpable driving charge.

46 year old mother of two: tragic accident.

Fucking sexism.

[BigMuz]

Sounds like the side street has always been a disaster waiting to happen.

I feel like the school should have made/ enforced different arrangements. Our school built a huge kiss and ride type deal to make it safe for the kids.

[spiller]

Interesting that the cop who was interviewed described it as a "freakish" incident. I'd bet more people are injured in this type of stuff than in incidents where speed is a factor and the driver is travelling 7-15 km/h over. Maybe they should ban women driving in high heels.

[Falc&Send]

Maybe they should ban women driving

Fixed

[dirtyrex]

It's a nightmare in the mornings. Gotta get the rangey from school, to coco bliss for an acai bowl and then on to Goodlife morningside to make yoga by 9.45

Can't hang around at yoga for long either, gotta straighten my hair to meet the girls for a soy latte straight after that! So busy!!

[Monza]

WTF is an acai bowl

[Mudkicker]

Fuck I hate mum's who think rules (not just road rules, life rules) don't apply to them.

I hope this bitch goes to jail and loses her license forever given she's demonstrated just how horrible a driver she is.

[grape drink]

Sounds like the side street has always been a disaster waiting to happen.

I feel like the school should have made/ enforced different arrangements. Our school built a huge kiss and ride type deal to make it safe for the kids.

Those kiss and ride things work if used properly. Parents at my kids school cant even get that right. They fucken park up in them and decide to get out and walk their kids in anyway. Mind you, there is ample parallel parking for people that want to park.

[Captain_Slow]

Sounds like the side street has always been a disaster waiting to happen.

I feel like the school should have made/ enforced different arrangements. Our school built a huge kiss and ride type deal to make it safe for the kids.

My son's school has a pretty good arrangement for drop-offs; they have the advantage of having a reeeaalllyyy long driveway/access road, so they've put a roundabout at the end of it with one entry and one exit only (called The Doughnut) and that's where you drop off and pick up. It can deal with about 5-6 cars at a time, but the standing rule is that you don't enter it until the group of cars ahead of you has cleared and you don't "overtake" anyone if you've finished your drop off but the other cars in your group haven't. So basically, 5 cars go in, drop off, when everyone's done those 5 cars leave in order, another 5 cars go in.

[TonyJZX]

fuck i got it easy... i park at the adjacent shopping centre carpark and walk the kid in

[Dark Orange]

Fuck I am glad I have no kids.

[bugle]

fuck i got it easy... i park at the adjacent shopping centre carpark and walk the kid in

Forcing your kid to walk more than 3m to the gate? Such child abuse