The car wasn't reversing at speed and it didn't ride over her via the wheels. The scooter was located before the driveway and the rider has fallen off the scooter (not known how. Could have put a wheel off the footpath and the scooter bottomed out, could have put a foot down and supermaned/stumbled/rolled over (remember you don't have to be travelling too fast just enough that you effectively trip over. People have similar falls when tripping on footpaths and that's at walking speed where momentum and trying not to fall takes over propelling you forward) etc but the end result is she has ended up on the ground) between the car wheel tracks and was dragged along. The driver was unaware until they had put it in drive and saw the drag marks on the driveway. The car wheel was removed to access/extract the patient.Andy01 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 26, 2024 4:49 pmIt is entirely possible that the driver reversed out at some speed, but as the story unfolds it seems likely that the scooter was traveling too fast, the girl panicked when she saw the car moving and either fell off or went over the bars - directly into the path of the reversing car at low level where the girl was not visible to the (inexperienced) driver, resulting in the car riding right up over the girl and pinning her underneath (which, as you say, is probably why a wheel was off). All I have heard about the driver is that the parents, and (as far as I know) police have not blamed her for anything and no charges have been laid - which seems to indicate that the fault lies elsewhere.
I don't know about the newer Kia Rios but the older ones did not have reversing cameras (my mum drove one until recently).
There is a common theme to this - in many situations where people can access potentially dangerous "things" without any real restrictions or the need for compulsory training, bad things tend to happen - how many people are injured or worse in USA by people who bought a firearm and have no idea how to use it, and have never been trained. In Australia, particularly a couple of decades ago, P platers got their first car, often a beaten-up old "Big 6" (especially males) with no training on how to use/manage the power that it still had, e-device owners (including parents who don't ride themselves) can simply buy something that it more dangerous than many "learner-level" motorbikes - with no requirement for any training, and then worse still, hand it to young kid (who barely has the sense to cross a road, and probably no knowledge of traffic rules) to do as they wish. It is not a recipe for success.
Also another common theme is people making assumptions on someone's circumstances that they do not know trying to fit what has happened into their own argument or preconceptions.
