This time a crash was a good thing.
Driving home on Merrick Road, State Rt 27A with 2 lanes each way, and I noticed a young girl, maybe 6 or 7 on the side walk of a side road speeding to the intersection... followed by her dad running after her. My first though is she's not going to stop and go into the road where cars are doing 40mph. Then, a stroke of luck she glances off a telephone pole and crashes. She fall off and lands next to the curb... my heart stops for a second. As i'm pulling over to the side she gets up and runs to her dad. I wait for a second to make sure she's OK and she was. Luckily she was wearing a helmet and her dad picks up the bike. I called out to see if they needed a ride home and the dad said "no thanks".
It really gets me angry when I see young kids not wearing helmets and this is because the parents don't insist on it from day one.