Dog attack
Walking with our neighbour and a dog in Bottle lake by Rothesay Road, on hearing a yelp we turned round to find a short female with a long blonde ponytail, desperately trying to control her longhaired German shepherd. Luckily he was on a lead as I think he would have easily killed our neighbour's poor dog. We called to our dog and she came but we didn't notice the huge gash in her side till after the woman had gone past, commenting as she went, "You should have your dog on a lead" We all walk dogs in the forest and very few are on leads. They all go up to each other and sniff and play sometimes. If a dog is that unsociable that it can't be let off a lead, then at least warn others before the dog can attack, muzzle it or I suggest she finds an alternate route.
Who would have thought walking could have been so dangerous!
Wow!
In 2022 there were 33 fatal crashes, 245 serious injury crashes, and 590 minor injury crashes where pedestrians were involved.
In these crashes, 34 people walking died, 240 people walking were seriously injured, and 595 people walking suffered minor injuries.
Most injuries occur in the young (5 - 29yrs), then 50+yrs, with the highest number of child pedestrians injured between 2pm and 4pm, followed by 4pm to 6pm and 8am to 10am.
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The Australian Prime Minister has expressed plans to ban social media use for children.
This would make it illegal for under 16-year-olds to have accounts on platforms including TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and X.
Social media platforms would be tasked with ensuring children have no access (under-age children and their parents wouldn’t be penalised for breaching the age limit)
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