I agree with you. The parents should be teaching the children that they need to be careful of other people when on their bikes. I’m sure that 87 year old woman didn’t appear out of nowhere. The mothers should have anticipated and warned their children to be careful.
As an aside, cyclists in general tend to ignore the rules - and apparently it starts while they are still in “training wheels”.
“I’m sure that 87 year old woman didn’t appear out of nowhere. The mothers should have anticipated and warned their children to be careful.”
Are you a witness, because the article does not say if the elderly woman appeared out of nowhere or not. The point is that we live in a law-suit happy world. If these kids were racing their bikes down the sidewalk and the elderly woman stepped onto the sidewalk from a place were she could not be seen, then it might not be the kids’ faults.