You aren't supposed to run red lights or drive drunk either yet some people do. The point is, it is dangerous and dumb to assume everyone is going to follow all the rules, all the time. There's no reason for an adult (bus driver) to be encouraging this behavior regardless of how cute it is. Surely you've heard the expression, 'It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt'?
I'm absolutely positive that bus driver had eyes on his mirrors and made sure that there were no cars coming before he let that kid off that bus.
Would you bet your kids life on that? I'm sure the bus driver was looking too. But I would strongly prefer it if all people, especially kids, always looked both ways before crossing a street.
Yeah like what the fuck are these people arguing against? We're just saying that kids should look both ways when crossing the street and the Americans are flooding over arguing against it for some fucking reason.
My gut feeling is that they don't want to admit that there's a systematic flaw with how they raise their kids in this regard and instead of admitting it and fixing it by teaching kids to always look both ways, they just hide behind "it's not allowed".
I watched a 15-year old boy on rollerblades lose control going down a hill and zoom into an intersection against the light and get run over by a bus. Died instantly. It was very traumatic. This video is not an example of that.
I do, but would you bet your child's life that everyone does? To run a cross the road infront of a buss like that is an accident in the making. We are taught that at home and school from an early age ( not American).
The person you are responding to is saying they know this and observe this; but others don't. It's not a question about who is going to jail — the prime motivation here should be to make sure children don't get hurt even if dumbtards are driving on the road that day.
What does this mean? Right to due process is enshrined in the constitution. They may take you to jail immediately (which happens for many things), but you still get a court case.
well kinda they have cameras on most busses now and if it isn't a 100% yeah you will get a judge but the only time you see a judge in a case like that is when your being sentenced its a very odd crime
Source? Traffic laws like this are covered by the states, so you'll have 50 versions. In California, it's a fine of up to $1,000 and license revocation of up to 1 year. But those are max penalties. I didn't see anything about skipping trial, and that would violate the 5th and 14th amendments.
Sure, the bus had his hazard lights on so here you are allowed to pass the bus with walking speed (busses here don't have a "stop arm" like school busses in the US). Yet, the transporter hit the kid with ~20mph as it ran across the street in front of the bus.
sure, the kid passed the street without looking
sure, the driver of the car was way to fast to react to something he wasnt able to see in time. that's why he was also sued for involuntary manslaughter
nevertheless, there were to options to prevent the kid from dying. one was a driver less stupid and the other was a kid teached not to trust in the sanity of car drivers
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u/finfisk2000 1d ago edited 14h ago
The kid never looked for traffic on either side and just ran infront of the buss. A passing car would never had any chance to react.
Edit: In my profession I do risk assesments and investigate accidents.