Another pavement motorist kills, a young child this time.

Luckily no pavement cyclists were involved this time but the threat to
them from motorists is ever present and no pavement is safe.

"A four-year-old girl who died after being run over by a car on a
driveway in Bedfordshire has been named.

Olivia Hicks died after a Ford Focus reversed and trapped her
underneath at Coppice Mead in Biggleswade on Monday 20 February.

She was taken to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge but died on
Saturday.

An inquest opened and adjourned in Bedford on Tuesday heard that
Olivia, of London Road, Biggleswade, had suffered a "catastrophic
brain injury".

Bedfordshire Police is investigating what happened."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...herts-17193520

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A driving licence is sometimes a licence to kill.

Doug wrote:
Luckily no pavement cyclists were involved this time but the threat to
them from motorists is ever present and no pavement is safe.

"A four-year-old girl who died after being run over by a car on a
driveway in Bedfordshire has been named.

So not even on a pavement?

On 29/02/2012 06:04, Doug wrote:
Luckily no pavement cyclists were involved this time but the threat to
them from motorists is ever present and no pavement is safe.

"A four-year-old girl who died after being run over by a car on a
driveway in Bedfordshire has been named.

Olivia Hicks died after a Ford Focus reversed and trapped her
underneath at Coppice Mead in Biggleswade on Monday 20 February.

She was taken to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge but died on
Saturday.

An inquest opened and adjourned in Bedford on Tuesday heard that
Olivia, of London Road, Biggleswade, had suffered a "catastrophic
brain injury".

Bedfordshire Police is investigating what happened."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...herts-17193520

A terrible thing to happen, but do driveways (which are invariably not only
private property but private space) *really* count as footways?

On 29/02/2012 06:04, Doug wrote:
Luckily no pavement cyclists were involved

Oh, that's alright then. Never mind the dead child.

Not that it was a pavement motorist anyway. Would it be possible to be
more off-topic?