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Hit a small child

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  • Gandalfthesecond
    Gandalfthesecond Posts: 171 Forumite
    What's a 'bike park'?

    Is the OP a youth with a BMX?
  • poontang
    poontang Posts: 55 Forumite
    Inactive wrote: »
    :rotfl::D

    I meant this bit;

    " You MUST NOT cycle on a pavement. ";)

    It wasn't a pavement, pavements are found alongside roads.

    This is a dedicated path running from the road up to the swimming pool.
  • POPPYOSCAR
    POPPYOSCAR Posts: 14,902 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    I really don't know the rights and wrongs of it but I personally would have stopped as I know how unpredictable children can be.
  • poontang
    poontang Posts: 55 Forumite
    Gandalfthesecond wrote: »
    What's a 'bike park'?

    Is the OP a youth with a BMX?

    You know what a car park is?

    Well a bike park is the same thing for bicycles.
  • pendulum
    pendulum Posts: 2,302 Forumite
    The access path is most obviously for pedestrians. If you're going to use it on a bike and there are no signs to say you can't, you've got to be more careful than you were as if you hit anyone it's most likely to be regarded as your fault. Trying to go between them seems like a silly thing to do.
  • Gandalfthesecond
    Gandalfthesecond Posts: 171 Forumite
    poontang wrote: »
    It wasn't a pavement, pavements are found alongside roads.

    This is a dedicated path running from the road up to the swimming pool.

    So it's a footpath and you shouldn't have been riding on it.
  • Inactive
    Inactive Posts: 14,509 Forumite
    poontang wrote: »
    It wasn't a pavement, pavements are found alongside roads.

    This is a dedicated path running from the road up to the swimming pool.

    Try telling that to Mr. Plod.

    Footpath/pavement, same item.
  • poontang
    poontang Posts: 55 Forumite
    Gandalfthesecond wrote: »
    So it's a footpath and you shouldn't have been riding on it.

    There's also a bike park at the bottom of the path. If they didn't intend people to cycle up the path they wouldn't have built the bike park at the top.
  • rev_henry
    rev_henry Posts: 4,965 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    edited 23 February 2011 at 5:51PM
    Sounds to me like its a shared cycle/foot path. If it wasn't signposted as that, or a bridleway etc then you shouldn't have been cycling there. Otherwise just sounds like an accident.

    Can you send us a google streetview link?
  • Gandalfthesecond
    Gandalfthesecond Posts: 171 Forumite
    poontang wrote: »
    There's also a bike park at the bottom of the path. If they didn't intend people to cycle up the path they wouldn't have built the bike park at the top.

    What's a bike park?

    One of these?

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