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Post by capitalomnibus on Sept 10, 2023 11:12:34 GMT
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Post by Paul on Sept 10, 2023 11:21:10 GMT
Maybe it’s my bias as a bus driver coming through but that article doesn’t come across as particularly fair and if you didn’t know the whole story you might assume the bus driver was totally at fault. If you’ve seen the video then you’ll know the bus driver was a completely innocent party as the car came speeding out of a side road directly into the side of the bus at the centre doors, knocking the bus off course and sending it into the garden of a nearby house
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Post by southlondon413 on Sept 10, 2023 13:34:50 GMT
Maybe it’s my bias as a bus driver coming through but that article doesn’t come across as particularly fair and if you didn’t know the whole story you might assume the bus driver was totally at fault. If you’ve seen the video then you’ll know the bus driver was a completely innocent party as the car came speeding out of a side road directly into the side of the bus at the centre doors, knocking the bus off course and sending it into the garden of a nearby house I’m not a bus driver and I agree. That car slammed into the bus with such force it genuinely surprised me the bus didn’t fall onto its side. A different angle or a little bit faster and that could have easily happened. The bus driver should be commended for preventing more injuries and that car driver should be seriously questioned. |
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Post by northlondon83 on Sept 10, 2023 14:10:54 GMT
Maybe it’s my bias as a bus driver coming through but that article doesn’t come across as particularly fair and if you didn’t know the whole story you might assume the bus driver was totally at fault. If you’ve seen the video then you’ll know the bus driver was a completely innocent party as the car came speeding out of a side road directly into the side of the bus at the centre doors, knocking the bus off course and sending it into the garden of a nearby house The majority of dangerous drivers in my opinion are car drivers. Driving at speeds far too high in my opinion. |
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Post by greenboy on Sept 10, 2023 15:17:10 GMT
Maybe it’s my bias as a bus driver coming through but that article doesn’t come across as particularly fair and if you didn’t know the whole story you might assume the bus driver was totally at fault. If you’ve seen the video then you’ll know the bus driver was a completely innocent party as the car came speeding out of a side road directly into the side of the bus at the centre doors, knocking the bus off course and sending it into the garden of a nearby house The majority of dangerous drivers in my opinion are car drivers. Driving at speeds far too high in my opinion. Hence the need for speed cameras and other traffic calming infrastructure. |
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Post by greenboy on Sept 10, 2023 15:41:34 GMT
Maybe it’s my bias as a bus driver coming through but that article doesn’t come across as particularly fair and if you didn’t know the whole story you might assume the bus driver was totally at fault. If you’ve seen the video then you’ll know the bus driver was a completely innocent party as the car came speeding out of a side road directly into the side of the bus at the centre doors, knocking the bus off course and sending it into the garden of a nearby house I can see what you mean but I suppose an article about a bus in a garden is going to grab more attention than a car. |
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Post by Catford94 on Sept 10, 2023 18:53:49 GMT
Maybe it’s my bias as a bus driver coming through but that article doesn’t come across as particularly fair and if you didn’t know the whole story you might assume the bus driver was totally at fault.
Nothing unusual about that - 'bus crash' is bigger news than 'car crash' and most of the media has a anti-bus, pro-car political slant. with some of them it's more obvious than others.
I have read one 'story' (can't remember if it was the 'standard' or elsewhere) where they made it sound like the bus / bus driver was at fault and only if you read it carefully, you saw that the bus was stationary at a bus stop at the time of impact.
There was another one a few years ago which involved a bendy bus (think it was on the 453 or a garage journey to it) where a car went on to the wrong side of the road (can't remember if it was overtaking dangerously or just veered across) and ran in to the front of the oncoming bus that was on the correct side of the road. One local press 'story' tried to spin it that it was the bus's fault for being there and / or Ken Livingstone's fault because it was a bendy bus. |
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Post by vjaska on Sept 10, 2023 20:39:35 GMT
Maybe it’s my bias as a bus driver coming through but that article doesn’t come across as particularly fair and if you didn’t know the whole story you might assume the bus driver was totally at fault. If you’ve seen the video then you’ll know the bus driver was a completely innocent party as the car came speeding out of a side road directly into the side of the bus at the centre doors, knocking the bus off course and sending it into the garden of a nearby house The majority of dangerous drivers in my opinion are car drivers. Driving at speeds far too high in my opinion. Ironically, introducing speed cameras and other measures like speed humps doesn’t do much to solve this - I’ve always said the only way is to make driving tests harder and to educate people on the dangers of dangerous driving |
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Post by COBO on Sept 10, 2023 20:42:55 GMT
How terrible.
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Post by DT 11 on Sept 10, 2023 20:44:48 GMT
Maybe it’s my bias as a bus driver coming through but that article doesn’t come across as particularly fair and if you didn’t know the whole story you might assume the bus driver was totally at fault. If you’ve seen the video then you’ll know the bus driver was a completely innocent party as the car came speeding out of a side road directly into the side of the bus at the centre doors, knocking the bus off course and sending it into the garden of a nearby house The same can be said about lorries too whenever accidents happen. I have seen the Dash Cam Footage too. The Evening No Standard writer of that article needs to get their facts right. Interesting the Dash Cam footage is not with the Evening No Standard so they can make up whatever BS they want. The Jerk in the Merk was driving at blazing speeds and hit this bus at a T Junction. Was shared all over Facebook Messenger and Whats App throughout the week. |
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Post by capitalomnibus on Sept 10, 2023 23:11:06 GMT
Maybe it’s my bias as a bus driver coming through but that article doesn’t come across as particularly fair and if you didn’t know the whole story you might assume the bus driver was totally at fault. If you’ve seen the video then you’ll know the bus driver was a completely innocent party as the car came speeding out of a side road directly into the side of the bus at the centre doors, knocking the bus off course and sending it into the garden of a nearby house The majority of dangerous drivers in my opinion are car drivers. Driving at speeds far too high in my opinion. But where does it state the car was speeding too high. From what I gather the car was on the wrong side of the road. Does not say anything that its speed was too high. |
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Post by capitalomnibus on Sept 10, 2023 23:13:10 GMT
Maybe it’s my bias as a bus driver coming through but that article doesn’t come across as particularly fair and if you didn’t know the whole story you might assume the bus driver was totally at fault.
Nothing unusual about that - 'bus crash' is bigger news than 'car crash' and most of the media has a anti-bus, pro-car political slant. with some of them it's more obvious than others.
I have read one 'story' (can't remember if it was the 'standard' or elsewhere) where they made it sound like the bus / bus driver was at fault and only if you read it carefully, you saw that the bus was stationary at a bus stop at the time of impact.
There was another one a few years ago which involved a bendy bus (think it was on the 453 or a garage journey to it) where a car went on to the wrong side of the road (can't remember if it was overtaking dangerously or just veered across) and ran in to the front of the oncoming bus that was on the correct side of the road. One local press 'story' tried to spin it that it was the bus's fault for being there and / or Ken Livingstone's fault because it was a bendy bus. Not a surprise. A lot of media is click bate. |
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Post by northlondon83 on Sept 11, 2023 0:12:32 GMT
Nothing unusual about that - 'bus crash' is bigger news than 'car crash' and most of the media has a anti-bus, pro-car political slant. with some of them it's more obvious than others.
I have read one 'story' (can't remember if it was the 'standard' or elsewhere) where they made it sound like the bus / bus driver was at fault and only if you read it carefully, you saw that the bus was stationary at a bus stop at the time of impact.
There was another one a few years ago which involved a bendy bus (think it was on the 453 or a garage journey to it) where a car went on to the wrong side of the road (can't remember if it was overtaking dangerously or just veered across) and ran in to the front of the oncoming bus that was on the correct side of the road. One local press 'story' tried to spin it that it was the bus's fault for being there and / or Ken Livingstone's fault because it was a bendy bus. Not a surprise. A lot of media is click bate. A lot of newspaper articles online are full of shite - the Daily Fail and Express especially |
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Post by southlondon413 on Sept 11, 2023 6:47:06 GMT
The majority of dangerous drivers in my opinion are car drivers. Driving at speeds far too high in my opinion. But where does it state the car was speeding too high. From what I gather the car was on the wrong side of the road. Does not say anything that its speed was too high. In this case it’s very clear that the car was moving too fast. There looked to be zero attempt to apply the brakes. The car slammed into the rear doors, obliterating them. |
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Post by ronnie on Sept 11, 2023 8:58:46 GMT
Is there a link somewhere which shows this? Just curious
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