r/MadeMeSmile • u/[deleted] • 1d ago

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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.

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u/noboday009 1d ago

Thanks for pointing it out..

Can anyone please explain this to me.

Doesn't usually open doors on the foothpath side? So, Passengers alight on the foothpath.. He's alighting on the road.

Doesn't matter when you say, "You don't overtake a standing school bus" but you can never know. Accidents don't tell you before they happen.

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u/chintakoro 1d ago

The exit is on the right of the bus, which is the same side as which cars drive in the US: it would put alighting passengers on the sidewalk. But this bus is stopped in the middle of the road, possibly to discourage cars from trying to overtake.

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u/_iusuallydont_ 1d ago

Our school buses have stop signs with flashing lights attached that deploy when the driver stops and opens the door. So, yes, someone could just try to go around but it’s illegal and most people don’t because they know a kid is about to get out.

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u/omgitschriso 1d ago

As a non American this is such a bizarre way of doing it. Here in Australia the bus driver would actively stop kids from crossing in front of the bus cos they can't see what's coming.

But US kids just get to run blindly out onto the road and hope people stop??

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u/mksmith95 1d ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoMekyvBkv0 every state's law varies slightly, but all require drivers to stop if a bus has its stop arm extended & flashing red lights (when kids are getting off the bus)... some states vary saying whether or not the opposite lane has to stop as well, but all of them at least say the same lane must stop... it's a major traffic violation if not. Kids should not be permitted to just blindly run out on the road so idk what the fuck this video is all about... Ughhhh :(

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u/mksmith95 1d ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoMekyvBkv0 every state's law varies slightly, but all require drivers to stop if a bus has its stop arm extended & flashing red lights (when kids are getting off the bus)... some states vary saying whether or not the opposite lane has to stop as well, but all of them at least say the same lane must stop... it's a major traffic violation if not. Kids should not be permitted to just blindly run out on the road so idk what the fuck this video is all about... Ughhhh :(

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u/mksmith95 1d ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoMekyvBkv0 every state's law varies slightly, but all require drivers to stop if a bus has its stop arm extended & flashing red lights (when kids are getting off the bus)... some states vary saying whether or not the opposite lane has to stop as well, but all of them at least say the same lane must stop... it's a major traffic violation if not. Kids should not be permitted to just blindly run out on the road so idk what the fuck this video is all about... Ughhhh :(

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u/ThatLeetGuy 1d ago

Genuine question, when are the kids supposed to cross the street in this case?

As a kid, my bus driver got upset with me one time for crossing behind the bus, because she said that she couldn't see me and couldn't know if it was okay to put the flashing stop sign down or not.

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u/Spork_the_dork 1d ago

After the bus leaves. Then you won't have any of the issues related to the bus anymore because the bus isn't there to cause issues.

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u/migzeh 20h ago

we don't stop traffic for a bus. Kid/person gets off then the bus departs, kid/person waits patiently for a time to cross the road safely and does it.

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u/TrixieBastard 1d ago

And hope that drivers stop for the big flashing stop sign that extends from the other side of the bus, yes. Nobody really wants to be the one who ran a kid over, you know? Also, running the school bus stop signs comes with a hefty fine, so even if they don't care about the children, they probably care about their wallets.

Also also, I remember being taught by the school to let the bus leave the stop before trying to cross. Granted thirty years was a long-ass time ago, but I'd certainly hope they still teach that to kids

(can't argue your point that things aren't normal or good here, though, yeesh)

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u/alanalan426 1d ago

they ain't normal over there

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u/Larrystooge 1d ago

Survival of the fittest. Whatever kid survives the shootings and crossings gets to inherit nothing.

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u/BagOnuts 23h ago

How is the driver gonna stop them if they are already out of the bus?

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u/ThatLeetGuy 1d ago

Genuine question, how and when are the kids supposed to cross the street in this case, then?

As a kid, my bus driver got upset with me one time for crossing behind the bus, because she said that she couldn't see me and couldn't know if it was okay to put the flashing stop sign down or not.

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u/PickleComet9 1d ago

So "most" kids don't get hit by a car? That's good then.

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u/SmellGestapo 1d ago

Kids unfortunately get hit by cars all the time, but I think it's rare that it happens in conjunction with them getting off a school bus.

Drivers are careless and too many kids live in suburbs where there are no safe places for kids to walk or play in the street.

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u/MaleficentRutabaga7 1d ago

Kids getting hit by cars are almost never exiting a bus. The reason busses have those features is because kids are fucking stupid.

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u/bighand1 1d ago

I've seen driver who kept on driving with that bus stop sign lifted from the opposite lane. Got chewed out by the bus driver, point is some people just drive badly

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u/mksmith95 1d ago

Actually should have gotten a major ticket for that! highly illegal. Glad he got chewed out! If you ever kit a kid, it will haunt you til the day you die... My grandma always talks about one of her grandparents accidentally hitting a kid that ran in front of the car & they thankfully lived but it haunted them forever.

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u/handytech 1d ago

Former bus driver here. In my training the kids should be taught and made to wait in front of the bus outside and not to cross until the bus driver signals it's ok. Even then they were taught to look both ways before crossing and after the green light is given.

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u/KankleSlap 1d ago

How can you trust young children to never cross the road even if they are taught not to.

Its the full responsibility of drivers not to pass a stopped school bus from both sides.

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u/Attention_Bear_Fuckr 1d ago

In other countries we educate our kids not to walk onto a street without looking both ways. Here, they're also taught to only cross when the bus has left, so their view isn't impaired.

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u/CilanEAmber 1d ago

In the UK when I was a kid, we had singing hedgehogs. That gave us PSAs on crossing safely.

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u/xiaopangyang 1d ago

Only in America, other countries don’t have this rule