'Children aren't safe' | Mother demands change after 10-year-old hit by dirt bike in DC bike lane
Today a DC family is demanding answers after 10-year-old riding in a bike lane was hit by a dirt bike over the weekend in Northwest DC. The child is hospitalized with brain injury. The biker has not been found. Here is the report from WUSA9
"At this point, people,” the mother said, “children aren't safe, not even in a bike lane that the city provided for [them] to be safe and I just want the mayor or anybody to just see if we can change the laws . . . ,”
DDOT says look to MPD for enforcement. But, while it is illegal to ride ATVs and dirt bikes on public streets in DC, police are not going to chase down bikes.
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