Kids on Bikes, in Cars

Another one on a bicycle got into it with a car and the car won again. We saw the young man (on his way home from middle school – he is on the same grade level team as my grandson) in the ditch with his mangled bike beside him. He was sitting up surrounded by first responders looking pretty animated. From what we could see as we drove by, the boy will be ok but the bike was basically totaled and of course there were no bike helmets anywhere. School is almost out. I've turned the A/C on in my house because summer temps are heating up. And then I saw on the news that another child has died after being left in a hot car. This is a risky world for kids and this time of year seems like the riskiest. Time to insist they wear a bike helmet. Time to look where you are driving because once school is out everywhere kids are may as well be considered a kid zone. And if you are a parent of a little one, please throw your shoe in the backseat beside the car seat so you won’t go off to work and leave the baby in the car. One child gone and another injured is hard enough to handle. Consider these incidents a very sad and scary wake up call. Let’s work together to keep kids safe this summer.