Posted on 11/05/2018 11:56:18 AM PST by grundle
Not a problem, after I posted it, I thought “Gee, I hope he doesn’t take offense!” (Because none was intended) and if you came back with your guns ready, I was going to put my hands in the air for reconciliation!
Sometimes things look harsher when you re-read them! I think we are on the same page...:)
Sigh. I know I am ready to pillory her because I assume she was texting and it is a sore spot with me.
I know I shouldn’t feel differently, but somehow I do, if she was simply overtired and blurred out for a second rather than texting.
I suppose I have been on the road, tired when I shouldn’t have, because if you kill or injure someone, you are just as negligent as if you were texting.
But there is something about the concept of killing or injuring someone because you are texting as opposed to working long hours on little sleep. I know it is the same, but texting just seems worse to me.
So pointless. You can’t even just WAIT? (FWIW, I always pull off the road to talk or text...I don’t trust myself at all. But most of the time, unless it is my wife who never calls me on the phone, I just leave it be until I get home.)
If I am approaching a turn I plan to make and there is someone waiting at the intersection, I signal and check behind me; if it is clear I give the other driver a courtesy blink of my headlights. Most go, some don't.
One of the things in my area that drives me bonkers is the bus literally stops every 25 yards or so in this one area. They stop at nearly every driveway.
Good gosh. Instead of stopping at every person’s driveway, can’t they congregate in every third driveway or something? They don’t do it because there is no sidewalk, which is the usual explanation...there is one.
I know. I sound like a grouchy old man.
LOL, depending on the intersection, I won’t even do that. If I am approaching someone pulling out and I am pulling in, I go out of my way steering the vehicle to make it absolutely obvious I am turning just to help out.
Boy. I love driving when I drive for fun, vacation, or whatever, but I hate commuting now. I have a 17 mile commute, and every week or two, one of those commutes takes an hour and a half, or even two hours. It is just so congested.
I shouldn’t complain. I know other people probably have it even worse.
My husband got T-Boned by a gal TEXTING and ran the red light, but NO ONE STOPPED TO TELL THE POLICE WHAT HAPPENED, so we had to pay for a new car.....NOTHING HAPPENED TO HER!
The police would have to put the piece of sh*t in protective custody forever if they were my children.
:(
There is a finite number of electrons in the galaxy and we must use every single one of them.
If the bus driver waved the kids along he is also guilty. I drove a school bus for several years and was told specifically never to do that. The drivers vison can be impaired due to the fact that he is sitting inside of a vehicle (the bus).
The kids are supposed to cross in front of the bus and then stop & look before crossing. They are trained to wait until all traffic is stopped before moving a muscle.
Wasting more bandwidth, again.
I’m really not worried about Shepherd, lol. She won’t get nearly enough time behind bars. Those children’s families are beginning a life sentence of pain and suffering, unlike the one that deserves it.
Yep, the driver behind her could clearly see the flashing lights and tell it was a school bus. No excuse for what she did, none at all.
Nobody in the news has said that she was texting, distracted, or misjudged the situation as she came up the road...ect. The truth will have to come out in the trial but negligent homicide seems to be the charge she won’t escape from and probably she will be imprisoned. Whatever was going on with this chick, she went around a bus and hit and killed those kids.
I’ll bet the bus driver will be looked at. If she did see the car and waved the kids to cross while the car was in motion, while making an assumption that Shepherd would stop then the bus driver has some culpability. The Bus driver should have waited until the car she saw had actually come to a stop behind the bus before waiving the kids across.
If we can’t sue Smith and Wesson over shooting deaths... and we can’t... and that’s a good thing.
What has changed? Would you post it?
Just off hand,I’d say she was following too close, not
paying attention and tried to swerve to the right to
avoid a collision, unfortunately at a bus stop.
Poor family, I pray for their support in this time of loss.
She was going 45 mph according to the witness driving behind her.
The parents had lobbied for 3 years to get the bus stop changed from crossing the main highway to a side street. The next day after the accident the stop got changed.
I made an error. Sorry. FR doesn’t let me delete things.
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