Bike child trailer among the traffic. Where are the protective and caring mothers?

Bike child trailer.

After reading an article on Cambridge News "Cycling in Cambridge: more dangerous than extreme sports"  and after the view of many bikes child trailer among the traffic in Cambridge (UK) I have decided to write this post. This is my first post in English, so let me wrong. First of all a bike child trailer is a bicycle trailer designed to carry one or more children behind a cyclist.



The bicycle trailer was originally designed for cargo transport. Then the children have become "the cargo".

The article mentioned speaks about Jane Richards, 40, who was cycling while carrying her five-month-old son Fox in a special pannier when the collision happened in Cherry Hinton Road at 9.10am yesterday on 2 December 2011. It’s not the first time the family have been the victims of a road traffic collision while cycling. The couple’s seven-year-old son Moel broke his foot while cycling last year in an accident involving a car.

Bike child trailer.

My opinion is that it is dangerous to put her child up to to the road surface. A child of five months, with his fragile head, exposed to any shock! The bicycle trailer was originally designed for cargo transport. Then the children have become "the cargo". You pedals and you forget to have a child under your responsibility. A chic way, exposing the head of these children up to the bumpers and wheels of cars. Madness is to carry around your children as if they were packages exposed to any fatality. Where are the protective and caring mothers?"

Bike child trailer.

Bike child trailer.

Bike child trailer. Children in a trailer look especially vulnerable, situated at the height of cars' bumpers.

Bike child trailer.