The way people treat school buses on the road is despicable. Every illegal pass of a stopped school bus should be punished far more harshly, if someone can't stop for a bus filled with kids they don't deserve to be on the road at all.
I'm a school bus driver and last year someone drove around my bus on the left while my 8-ways were on and the stop sign was out and hit a student who was crossing the street after exiting the bus, bumping her in the shoulder and running over her foot. I got the plate number but the cops did nothing with it. Passing the bus in the opposite direction is something I even expect these days (although it's still illegal of course) since people are too busy looking at their phones to pay attention, but going around a lit-up bus in the same direction means seeing a stopped school bus and then consciously deciding "fuck them kids".
Fortunately, the girl was not hurt somehow, but it still made me want to fuck that driver up bad.
How the fuck did the cops do that nothing???
They said that with only the plate number and not a sighting of who was driving, they couldn't charge anybody. I talked to the girl who was run over and she said she saw the driver very clearly. I relayed this to the police and they still did nothing.
What would they have needed...? For the driver to come back and sign a confession?
"Sorry, they used a green pen instead of a black one. Nothing we can do."
It has to be a #2 pencil.
The perfect crime.
Misdemeanor outside their view with no proof of the driver. They probably wrote a ticket to the plates owner and left it there.
Horrible to hear about the incident and the fact that the police did not care. In my mind school buses should be the most protected vehicles on the road, treated the same way as first responders.
So sad
I bet the minivan driver was texting.
I'm a school bus driver and I used to use my high vantage point to count how many passing drivers were looking at their phones instead of ahead of them, and I estimated that it was about 1 in 4. I even had a cop pass me while I had my lights on and kids were about the cross - he was face down in his phone and driving with one hand.
I stopped counting for the sake of my mental health. I truly don't understand why I don't see multiple collisions a day because of this shit.
Oh don't you know? Cops are trained in the use of technology while driving so it's perfectly safe for them to be buried in their phones or that fucking laptop they have mounted on their center console while running red lights at 80 mph without their sirens on. Don't even worry about it.
My first thought as well. Why else would they be over the line?
Terrible :(
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Fucking carbrains.
Oh- no, I don't think the minivan was self driving.
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