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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ez bake" data-source="post: 1341177" data-attributes="member: 229">Yeah - if you read the article, the whole thing stinks - the mothers were "supervising" the children and letting them race bicycles on a public sidewalk (not the street - I'd venture to guess in NY, there's probably a law against bicycles on sidewalks too) - the kid hit an 87 year old lady and fractured her hip - resulting in a surgery and somehow (related or not) 3 months later she died.The estate (read family of the 87 year old) sued the family (which means the parents of the kids)  for negligence and their lawyer's response was:"the girl was not “engaged in an adult activity” at the time of the accident - “She was riding her bicycle with training wheels under the supervision of her mother” - and was too young to be held liable for negligence."That's a slimy move on the lawyer for the parents in trying to weasel out of being responsible for the consequences of letting your kids race bicycles on a public sidewalk with other people on it (and I'm guessing, not with as much control as they claim).The ability to sue a 4 year old is ridiculous, but the parents sound awfully negligent if their kids were going fast enough on a public sidewalk to hit an old lady that hard.</blockquote>