Comments on: Three Dozen Students Uninjured In Pine Forest Road School Bus Crash

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 05:37:59 +0000

REGARDING:
“My car is TOTALED and I was injured. To suggest any fault being mine…I will stop at that!”

Be at peace.

Nothing Jessica wrote implied you were in any manner at fault.

Her point was that school buses are better built to withstand such impact without harming the riders than your car is — was. This was all in relation to an earlier comment that since people don’t notice buses, cars are safer to be in. Your car was hit and you were injured in just such an instance.

I hope your injuries heal quickly and completely.

David for safe riders

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 04:13:36 +0000

With school buses making so many stops in the roadway every day I think they should be outfitted with some type of guard extending downward from the rear bumper to keep cars from ending up under the bus….the folks in the silver mercury were VERY LUCKY glad there ok!

By: T Franko

T Franko — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 01:16:13 +0000

Not sure why I am responding, I guess to educate Ms. Hemp. I was the driver of the silver car. If a pssenger is under a certain weight, the passenger air bag will NOT deploy… and it did NOT deploy. Sensors are in the bumpers, from what I was told and with my being bumper going UNDER the bus, none of the air bags deployed. Perhaps everyone would have been safer had the driver of the red car …maybe stayed home…been paying attention. We could have died and I find it offensive to read your uninformed remarks…like my airbags being deployed! My car is TOTALED and I was injured. To suggest any fault being mine…I will stop at that!

By: Jessica Hemp

Jessica Hemp — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 14:51:57 +0000

To all you car riders of your children, its not safe anywheres, but what if your child had been the passenger in the silver car, air bag came out, they wouldve been safer on the bus that morning.

By: Biscuit

Biscuit — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 16:47:03 +0000

At Evans: if it was a mac biscuit, there’s your problem. He probaly got sick & wrecked.

By: bewildered

bewildered — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 13:24:22 +0000

Accidents caused by distraction due to phones/ipods, etc. will get far worse when today’s kids will reach the age to start driving. My 4 grandchildren don’t hear, see or pay any attention to their surroundings – their complete concentration is directed toward the electronic devices in their hands. Scary – it’s no longer an obsession – it’s an addiction just like drugs or alcohol.

By: G.T.

G.T. — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 12:40:08 +0000

I drive this route everyday for work. The morning drivers on Pine Forest Road are like drivers on all roads, they don’t want to be bothered by a school bus stopping for kids. This bus has been passed with red stop light flashing many time. Until this year this bus picked up all of Silver Lake Mobile Home Park right off of Pine Forest Rd., now I believe it drives into the park for the safety of the children. When I am stopped behind a bus I think to myself, this is a delay in my commute, but if that was my child, I would want all drivers to stop for them and that little thought keeps me focused on the safety of the children comes first.

I do my best to stay at at the posted 45 MPH on Pine Forest Rd., it is hard when a long line of “annoyed drivers” are behind you demanding to go 60 – 80 MPH.

I do not know if the driver was texting, talking on a phone, eating breakfast, got enough sleep last night, or daydreaming, but what I can tell you is all of us drivers need to just slow down and stop speeding and switching lanes all the time and being aggressive. Safety comes first.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 07:25:24 +0000

REGARDING:
“This is why my kids are car riders. Stupid people don’t watch out for buses!!”

Actually, many don’t watch out for anything.

That being the case, having the children in a school bus makes them less likely to be in a wreck and more likely to survive without injuries.

David for safer choices

By: FLSTCI

FLSTCI — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 04:46:43 +0000

Come on now. You know it’s how difficult is is to see a stopped school bus.

By: FL Girl

FL Girl — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 03:30:14 +0000

you would have to remove all distractions then: kids, passengers, etc not just phones and radios. The issue is people need to pay attention and SLOW down. It would also be helpful if people were not so selfish and would actually wait in lines and respect the traffic laws (red lights, lane racing to move one car length ahead, etc) A lot of the issues with bad driving are lack people caring about anyone but themselves.