lx279 mow in reverse?

[sparrowhawk]

I have a mother in my church that would beg to differ w/ all of you after she ACCIDENTLY ran over her son several years ago while backing up her mower.
Significantly injured him for life. That is why the reverse safety is on there and if you were to go through her horror, you would agree.

Don't act like people are stupid, things happen. I have the reverse safetyon my X475 and don't mind using it. I'd rather be inconvenienced a little than run over a person or pet.

My point exactly! Accidents are accidents, but whether the deck was running or not, she still backed over her kid.... This is all about going back to basics. Looking over your shoulder when you are backing up, etc. People aren't stupid but sometimes we get careless and complacent. unfortunately in life there isn't always a safety switch to protect us from that.

Some people are just plain stupid, but that's a whole different argument than I'm making...

 

[beenthere]

Anyone mowing with kids or people around are not very aware of the dangers of throwing sticks, stones, or debris (could call them "stupid" or really uninformed). Mowing should be done when no one is within throwing distance. IMO

Reverse kill switch are just for the liability protection of the mfg., and brings up another sore subject of our sue-happy, lawyer-monger society.

This mother should be the one serving time, if the injury to her child isn't enough penalty for bad judgement. Seems we look beyond ourselves for someone to blame and for someone else to pay (as if a pile of money makes it all right and feel good).

If someone is around, I don't engage the mower. If I approach someone, I disengage the mower. I won't tolerate having to over-ride the reverse switch. They get circumvented (circumsized? ) upon arrival.

 

[mjncad]

Common sense says Mom should have put her child (age?) in the house out of harm's way. The same for pets.

 

[Deadman]

I don't mow if people are around. If I do see someone, I won't continue until they are a long distance away. I'm in town, so i'm always looking for random people. I can't imagine even backing up without looking, muchless mowing in reverse and not looking.

Stuff does happen, but I don;t think its the machines fault because the driver caused an accideint with it.