In that situation, stopped as soon as he saw the kid.
I hate (in a worried way, not a evil way) wobbly kids on cycles, to the extent that I just don't want to hurt anyone so stay well clear.
In some situations they don't help themselves though. I shudder to think how close some kids late at night, in the winter, wearing black, on BMXs, with no lights, on an unlit road came very close to being squished by me when they came flying down a side road on a hill and right on to the main road that I was on.
How I managed to stop in time I will never know and of course they just rode off in to the distance as if nothing had happened.
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