How to deal with this?

[stuveltje]

its one road straight for her to get at her school, about 10 minutes on her bike, but she has to go over the railwaystation thing, there its dangerouse, not to much space for cars and bikes, the accident was strange, the lady was waiting and when the old man came infront her car, she pushed the gas thing, even when the man was under her car her wheels where still spinning, she ditn passed out or something like that, all my daughter can see is that vision, the man under the car and the wheels spinning, this suck, i try to talk into her, she enjoyed the drive by bike, she does with her friends, she watch the traffic closely, this was just an freaken strange accident, which hardly happens. i think i will drive her for 2 days and see if she want to go by bike again, i wonder if she gets nightmares

[spacemanspiff]

Wow, that's a tough one. My first thought was would I even let her ride her bike to school, but I'm sure the situation is very different here. I'm not even sure kids are allowed to ride their bikes to school. The roads are just not set up for bikes, and quite frankly the idiots in the cars are just too stupid.

Maybe you could get some statistics on bike accidents in your area and if it's a rare thing use that to get her back to doing something she enjoys, with a caution to be extra careful.

Of course if it's really common....