Vehicles should be banned from driving on beaches. Change my mind.
Actually, one of the key touristic things of K'gari is that you can actually drive a car on the beach, except for three set and marked zones (See here). As the article did not state where the incident happened, the car might or might not be legal there.
Keep in mind that the article states that the parents drove he daughter to the helicopter pickup point. So they might have been on a car-legal beach.
Regardless if allowing cars on a beach is a good thing or not, it is allowed in places, and letting a small child play unsupervised in such an area might not be the best parenting idea for a start. They could have gone to a "no cars allowed" beach instead. Apart from that - it is a beach. Not supervising young kids on a beach, especially one where large areas are marked as to dangerous to go into the water, is not a good idea from the word GO, anyway.
bestusername@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Reads like a child supervision issue to me.
You could argue that, if you replaced soft sand with carpark or paddock, the kid would likely be dead.
Melonpoly@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes, because drivers shouldn’t be held responsible for killing/ harming people their vehicles on a fucking beach.
bestusername@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Who said anything remotely like that?
I’m saying the incident could happen anywhere with lack of supervision.
FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 11 months ago
Not really. Driver arguably deserves more blame than the victim. Normal people don’t expect to be run over on a beach, its generally considered a vehicle free zone.
bestusername@aussie.zone 11 months ago
The article is very lacking in details, but I will say I’m not taking blame away from the driver, it’s not even clear if the driver was family.
I’m responding to the fact OP decided to add an opinion to the article, I don’t agree cars on beaches is the issue here, especially on an island that’s world famous for driving on the beach.