Comments on: One Injured After Slamming Into Parked School Bus

By: Friend

Friend — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 01:07:46 +0000

Wen…Hope Dee gets better way fast girl……..Praying for her & you all!
Hope they get her O2 level straightened out & her back heals perfectly cause ur right! She’s had lots of hard times & she’s a great person & good friend.
@ bus driver……….Thanks for your many years of guidance & perserverance while transporting our “babies”. Keep up the good work!
GAP

By: Oversight

Oversight — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:05:19 +0000

Some who have posted here have incorrectly aserted that I lay fault on the bus for causing this crash. Re-read my comments and you’ll find that this is not the case. My comments have been about my observation of the way that the bus was parked. If the bus had been parked some where else and completely out of the right of way, it would not have been involved in this collision and damaged. On the other hand, the driver of the car could have driven further down the road and crashed into somethine else like one of the twin bridges. Then I’d probably have something to say about that like both of the bridges are way too narrow and to meet current highway safety standards they should be replaced ASAP.

By: concerned busdriver

concerned busdriver — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:16:53 +0000

I hope the lady will be ok. Concerning the color of the bus, it woud not matter what color we are, I have been driving for 24 years and have seen a lot. I have had people not wanting to stop behind a bus to let students of and go around me

By: NEIGHBOR !

NEIGHBOR ! — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 00:28:54 +0000

OBVIOUSLY IF YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN THE BUS PARKED IN PERSON AND ARE ONLY GOING BY THIS PHOTO THEN YOU WOULD BE SURPRISED TO REALIZE THAT THE WAY THE LAND IS THIS BUS DRIVERS LAND GOES UPHILL AND HER PROPERTY IS PAST THIS BUS ! THIS BUS WAS IN A PRIVATE DRIVEWAY AND NOT PARKED WRONG OR ILLEGAL, UNTIL YOU KNOW THE FACTS YOU SHOULD NOT COMMENT ! HER DRIVEWAY GOES WAY PAST THE BUS ! SOME PEOPLE NEVER CEASE TO AMAZE ME ! MY GRACIOUS WHETHER THE LADY WAS HAVING A MEDICAL EMERGENCY OR DRUNK OR INNOCENT OR WHATEVER WE SHOULD BE PRAYING SHE IS OK AND NOT WORRYING ABOUT BLAMING AN INNOCENT BUS DRIVER FOR AN ACCIDENT BECAUSE I CAN ASSURE YOU THIS BUS IS AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN PARKED LEGAL AND ON HER PROPERTY !

By: McDavid resident

McDavid resident — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 20:56:12 +0000

Seems like a few are trying to blame this accident on where a bus was parked instead of the woman who was driving the car. It’s unfortunate the cars driver may have had a medical issue that caused her to allegedly pass out and run off the road and hit this bus….I’m hoping this woman is ok. It could have been worse, she could of stayed on the road and hit an oncoming car head on.
The experts here to decide if the bus was or wasn’t parked properly are FHP or the sheriffs department. From my understanding, in the 12 or so years that the bus driver parked her bus in her driveway, not one time ever had FHP, FDOT, or the ECSD ever knocked on her door to say her bus was parked illegally or that she was too far out in the right of way. From the many times I’ve seen this bus parked in that driveway, there has always been adequate space between the back of the bus and the roadway. And I’m pretty sure FHP or ECSD would have ticketed the bus driver the night of this accident had she blocked the right of way.

By: Oversight

Oversight — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 17:54:44 +0000

“bratt”… Come on, even from the picture one can see that the rear half of the bus is beyond the owner’s property line with the rear wheels of the bus on top of the culvert which is within the right of way.

as for “me”… I don’t know why I should respond, but trees are not placed by a driver and power poles are a necessity risk of modern living, so removing them would be impractical; on the other hand, finding a better parking spot for a bus is another story.

By: amanda

amanda — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 17:30:11 +0000

@daughter I hope your mom is alright, we’ll all be praying for y’all!

By: bus driver

bus driver — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 14:11:33 +0000

I have been a bus driver for 12 years and has never had a accident before i drive precious cargo every day to and from school. i have never put my children lives in danger. i love doing what i do. when there is a bus accident the first people want to blame is the bus drivers but most accidents are from the other person not paying attention so the first thing is let blame the bus driver. if it was not for buses how would your children get to school every day. we take our jobs serious, we don,t play around some make it out like were pick’n our nose or on cellphones but were not. we have camera all over our buses, and GPS that tells if were speeding. this lady that was in the accident is a very nice lady don’t no what happen but accidents happen. i took her children to church when they were small an i pray she is okay, will keep her an her family in our prayers. my bus was as far up my hill as i could get it , thank god i did our she could have went thru my camper or my house. come on people give us bus drivers a brake if you can do better there hiring ,every day the have signs up bus drivers needed. put your money were your mouth is.i’m a good christian lady and i get angry when people have nothing good to say about people only negitive things to say. on my bus i tell my children if you can’t say something nice then don’t say anything at all.maybe some adults should take that advise.

By: me

me — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:38:39 +0000

Oversight: if that’s the case we should cut all trees down and no more power poles either by the road. Her bus is always off the road.

Daughter: I hope your mon has a fast recovery!

By: bratt

bratt — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 02:44:34 +0000

Oversight..we live rite down tha road from tha bus n its n tha woman’s driveway….she’s been a bus driver fer many many maaannny years n this never happened. She always has her bus off tha road…I mean come on deputy drive this road all day long n if she had part of it still n tha road they woulda done said sum to her

Daughter I do hope ur mom is ok and gets back to her regular walks of life real soon….I pray fer her n u n ur family as well….juz member to always have faith