| When my youngest daughter was about 3 or 4, she was out riding her tricycle on the sidewalk in front of the house while I was washing the car. I heard something and turned around.... the neighbour girl (who had just received her licence) had jumped in her car and backed it up... right over my daughter. Her tricycle protected her by preventing her from going further under than the gas tank of the car and pushed her along "ahead" of car as it reversed. The car was stopped within about 6 feet of the initial impact.
Fortunately my daughter suffered nothing more than scrapes; the neighbour was VERY shaken up (as was I)... she couldn't even see the toddler since she was below "trunk level" on the car. Everyone learned a heck of a lesson that day. We should all have gone out and purchased lottery tickets right then. |