Another child killed by car driving on beach (New Smyrna) (bars, swimming)

[OrlFlaUsa]

Yes, beach driving is safe!!!!!!! For now:Beach driving: Volusia officials debate changes to beach driving but stop short of ban - OrlandoSentinel.com

[don macauley]

car ban I hope

[Parrotrosie]

Originally Posted by don macauley

car ban I hope

This will equate to another dead town in Florida with no jobs and people losing their homes and everything they have worked their entire lives for. No one will go to a tourist town where they have to walk twelve blocks to get to the beach (Flagler , New Smyrna). They will take their money elsewhere. Go Liberals! Down with personal responsibilty!

[jambo101]

Originally Posted by beckycat

There are places in New Smyrna and Daytona where cars can't drive.

Once past Daytona's northern community of Ormond beach you can have the beach all to yourselves all the way to St Augustine.

[OrlFlaUsa]

Originally Posted by jambo101

Once past Daytona's northern community of Ormond beach you can have the beach all to yourselves all the way to St Augustine.

Exactly!! Sadly, once again the Sentinel today ran a letter to the editor and a Maxwell editorial that blasted beach driving. In neither instance did anyone have the courage to write that the majority of Florida's beaches are car free and "safe"(from cars at least). The letter to the editor author was so upset that the Sentinel had run another letter to the editor that was pro beach driving. So today, they run a viscious editorial which takes advantage of this little boy's death. Beach driving isn't going anywhere in Volusia county, so maybe those that disagree with it should!!!

[whynot66]

Would you let your kids play on the road? That's what they're doing on the beaches. They should ban cars.

[jdoty]

Originally Posted by whynot66

Would you let your kids play on the road? That's what they're doing on the beaches. They should ban cars.

Or how about this - you just don't take your kids to the small segments of beaches that allow cars and take them to the thousands of miles of beaches in Florida that don't allow them!

Not everything in the world is safe for small children, and not everything should be. It would be a very boring place if everything were.

[hgebel]

Originally Posted by whynot66

Would you let your kids play on the road? That's what they're doing on the beaches. They should ban cars.

Some people do let their kids play on the road, should we ban cars on the road because of a few irresponsible parents?

[OrlFlaUsa]

Originally Posted by jdoty

Or how about this - you just don't take your kids to the small segments of beaches that allow cars and take them to the thousands of miles of beaches in Florida that don't allow them!

Not everything in the world is safe for small children, and not everything should be. It would be a very boring place if everything were.

Thank you, couldn't have said it better myself. Can't we have at least 2 beaches where it's slightly geared toward adult recreation?? Don't take children to bars and don't let children play near cars, end of problem.

Originally Posted by hgebel

Some people do let their kids play on the road, should we ban cars on the road because of a few irresponsible parents?

We should ban beach driving because of preventable accidents that I attribute more to the parents than the county's permission of beach driving, the driver's themselves, or the innocent children who were taken to a beach they should have NEVER been at!

[lrodptl]

Beach driving,how friggin smart.