Posted on 06/14/2010 12:34:43 PM PDT by JoeProBono
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) -- Investigators have found that a 9-year-old boy killed in a collision with a Walt Disney World bus while riding his bicycle was "solely responsible" for the accident.
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Mom of boy killed by bus accuses Disney of cover-up
HISTORY:
April 2, 2010 - "Chase Brubaker, the 9-year-old boy struck and killed by a Walt Disney World bus Thursday in Lake Buena Vista, was described today as a cautious child who did everything right....."
Here come the lawyers!
My heart goes out to this family. To lose your nine year old son - I can’t imagine the pain.
That’s very tragic. I was very lucky as a kid, I ignored all the rules of the road and never wore a helmet when I rode a bike and I made it through childhood OK. Some kids just aren’t as lucky.
Kids on bikes have to be really careful.
“The Florida Highway Patrol report released Monday...”
Why would anyone allow their child to ride a bike where there qwas so much traffic? I’m sorry he was hit by a bus but I don’t think this was the drivers fault if he crossed into the bus’ path.Accidents do happen and sometimes people die.
No - Florida Highway Patrol investigated and found Disney was not at fault.
From the description given, sounds like the boy’s tire may have popped and he crashed into the bus.
The poor family.
Your reading comprehension simply cannot be that poor.
deja vu... seems like this story came out a long time ago... but i see it happened it April... seems like last year... i must be getting old...
I've witnessed children that age - in order to save time - ride across one side of a highway, lift their bike over the highway divider, then ride across the other side.
A divider with no shoulder on either side.
Multi-tasking today.
Bump for later reading.
It would be impossible to cover up, given the circumstances. If the bus had run all the way up onto the sidewalk on that well traveled road, it would have been witnessed, and the evidence would be clear.
No one crosses the mouse.
There was a witness behind the bus who said the boy looked over his shoulder and drifted off the sidewalk and into the side of the bus. Unless the witness was bought, the bus driver was not at fault, as Disney has found. How could it be the driver’s fault if someone hits the side of a vehicle when both are going in the same direction?
Kind of hard to blame the bus driver if the kid ran into the side of the bus.
Gotta feel for the family, but a kid on a bike has GOT to ride with traffic and hopefully in a bike lane and completely respect the cars and trucks and bus traffic going by. Like so many here on FR...my bike was my transporation until I was old enough to drive. Many many close calls and only one minor collision with a car.
Now I do some pretty long rides with my friends and not a ride goes by that someone doesn’t come close to getting creamed. Unless you live in the boonies, cycling is an extreme sport. Parents need to let their kids know how dangerous it is, and teach them how to ride.
Investigation and witnesses reflect the kid mistakenly wasn't watching where he was going and drifted into traffic.
Sad, but these things do happen.
I grieve for all, too include the bus driver.
Thanks for saving me the reading. :)
Exactly.Unless Disney specifically and clearly forbids bikes on their property then they've gotta expect that kids are gonna do dangerous things on bikes and they must plan accordingly which they appear not to have done.
My hunch is that Disney would lose in a courtroom...*unless* bikes are forbidden.
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