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.
this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2023
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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.
So sad
Terrible :(
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.
My first thought as well. Why else would they be over the line?
Drugs?
Jacking off?