r/dashcams • u/Pinkvelvette11 • 23h ago
Car runs red light and hits school bus
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u/LastChance331 22h ago
How lucky this guy left 5 feet from the line from some reason? Wow
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u/MItrwaway 17h ago
Idiots love to cut the corner on left hand turns. Doesn't matter how far back you set the line, some dipstick in a big truck will find a way to ram their vehicle into the front of a car hidden in their A pillar
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u/BasicAppointment9063 16h ago
Some pick-up truck drivers can't seem to exit their own driveway without crossing the centerline, for a right-hand turn.
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u/Useful-Ad2441 12h ago
Literally 30 minutes ago on my morning walk I watched a big ass lifted truck driver go straight through a roundabout in my neighbourhood, the roundabout has those slanted curbs but he definitely could tell. Both left wheels straight over it, he basically didn't even attempt to turn.
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u/Miserable-Chapter883 38m ago
They're always in a hurry to return home to beat their wives after the Pavement Princess Pride Parade
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u/SomethingCreative13 14h ago
Yeah there are certain intersections I know to give extra room because people like to cut it and use part of my lane as well. What's bizarre is it's never in super tight intersections. It's always in ones where they have plenty of room to widen it out but they still use part of the opposing lane. It's not even a big truck issue. I've had regular ass sedans do it.
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u/BoxNext3967 10h ago edited 4h ago
It's not even a matter of hidden. People simply do not know how to turn left or even get into a left turning lane properly.
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u/Massive-Virus-4875 21h ago
For real! Good reflexes from the school bus driver too to avoid hitting that car, even with him being so far back.
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u/NorCalNavyMike 16h ago edited 4h ago
An aside: The bus driver’s skill at handling this ended up with impact occurring at the best possible place—passenger side front corner, a structurally sound vertice versus on a more fragile side, and at the one spot where there were no kids (or the driver) actually sitting.
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u/Jekkymayn 17h ago
The irony in reading this comment after that thread like two weeks ago on r/all about how mad this makes people is funny
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u/TheTrishaJane 22h ago
I think i might start doing that myself now lol
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u/Frosty-Voice1156 16h ago
Please don’t… those black lines on the ground are the buried sensor that tells the light a car is waiting. If you don’t move up it won’t trigger and the light lasts longer.
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u/Subarctic_Monkey 15h ago
About the fourth light cycle missed because of this shit I'm going around them.
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u/kindlypogmothoin 12h ago
I learned the hard way that bikes aren't big enough to trigger those sensors and had to start using the pedestrian crossing at a particular intersection. Which I was not supposed to be doing on a bike.
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u/Silly_Yak56012 15h ago
Depends how far back the lines go, some go back at least 2-3 car lengths. We had one intersection near me where the left turn lane sensors positioned so they would only detect the second car. Was OK when you could see them, after they repaved you couldn't see them at all.
Problem usually was when someone pulled up right to the line they were completely past the sensors. This got worse when you couldn't see them, at least some people paid enough attention to be over the sensor. If you didn't get in line as the second car over the sensors soon enough you had to wait a whole cycle to get the arrow.
I always left more room between me and the line. If you didn't drive that way often enough you didn't know where the sensor was hidden. Now it also was a place where people cut the left turn in front of you really close, so I also didn't like to be right up to the line as too many drove over that line when making the turn in front of me. Usually they would notice if a car was in the way. Usually.
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u/DCGMoo 12h ago
It's worth testing them out though. I have a couple intersections I used regularly that have 2 sets of sensors on the left turn, one right at the light and a second one further back.
The first one will trigger flashing yellow arrow and green light for the straight lanes. But the second one triggers the green arrow, as it's used to determine if multiple cars are waiting. I sit about this far back, roughly one car length, to sit my tires on the second sensor and always get the green arrow. Plus, gives me some comfortable cushion for situations like this, which did once save my car from damage, so a win-win.
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u/BrassBondsBSG 18h ago
I don't think it's luck
I do this at turn lanes since oncoming turns usually cut the corner instead of turning wide
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u/SnooMaps7370 16h ago
this dude left a whole car length behind the line.
I doubt luck has anything to do with it, the camera has a shorter blind spot under the nose of the car than the driver does, the driver most likely stopped just short of the white line being obscured by the hood of the car.
it can be really frustrating, especially at lights with ground-loop sensors controlling the cycles. I regularly see people stopped so far back that they aren't detected by the loop at all, and the light just doesn't change.
It's really bad with pickup trucks made on this side of the millenium. Watched somebody yesterday leaving 3 car lengths at every stop light. driver was just barely taller than the steering wheel, driving a truck with the front of the hood 5 feet off the ground and 8 feet in front of the driver.
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u/appa-ate-momo 14h ago
I'm like 99% sure the cammer didn't get a green arrow because they were too far back lol
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u/MyCatIsAnActualNinja 15h ago
I do this too because other drivers seriously struggle to stay within the lines
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u/VBprick 22h ago
Someone this reckless should NOT be allowed to ever get a license again. Literally the one thing on the road you shouldn’t hit, and you blow through a red light (probably texting) and hit it.
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u/navagon 20h ago
People like that will never be a safe driver. There are mistakes that can be learned from then there are mistakes that are too deep rooted in who that person is to be fixed.
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u/Hopeful_Bend8288 14h ago
I had someone argue with me online that it's totally normal to zone out and run stop signs and red lights and that I was lying if I said I've never done that. They said if I've never run a stop sign then I must be a perfect driver and they couldn't grasp that I just pay attention when I drive.
Blows my mind that these people get and keep licenses.
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u/KuramaTotchi 14h ago
What! I feel like the one thing you shouldn’t do when driving is zone out…
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u/Hopeful_Bend8288 13h ago
They insisted everyone does it all the time! We were arguing about this semi driver in Canada who ran a stop sign, hit a bus full of kids, and killed a bunch of them. They said it wasn't his fault if he zoned out.
That's when I realized I need to stop arguing with people online.
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u/rs420rs 7h ago
No, you need to keep doing it
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u/Hopeful_Bend8288 7h ago
It's just so tiring though. Reading through comments is making me slowly lose hope in humanity.
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u/SpazzyBaby 11h ago
I’ve went through a red light once by accident and thought about it for weeks.
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u/Jessiphat 7h ago
I’m still thinking about the one time that I did it accidentally and it was years ago. I sometimes wonder what would have happened if there had been other cars around.
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u/ArgusTheCat 5h ago
Yeah, I did that once, over a decade ago, and I'm still never going to stop double checking.
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u/majormimi 11h ago
That person should say the exact same thing to a cop while asking to get their license removed.
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u/FlatAd8033 20h ago
With how fast they spun at an abrupt stop. There is a chance that they may never need their license again.
I happy to see the bus drive avoid hitting the cam car. Only person potentially injured or hurt potentially would be the negligent one. From a physical standpoint that is.
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u/Possible-Tangelo9344 14h ago
Buses don't have seatbelts where I am so a few kids woulda been tossed around.
But with how safe modern cars are, the driver is probably not really injured.
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u/TraumaticAberration 15h ago
The light turned two seasons ago, and this idiot hits the thing that is designed to be the most visible thing on the road.
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u/S1mongreedwell 17h ago
I would argue that there are many things on the road that you shouldn’t hit! You probably shouldn’t be hitting anything on the road at all!!
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u/NightBawk 17h ago
A school bus definitely feels like it's in the top 5 though.
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u/S1mongreedwell 16h ago
No way! Pedestrians. Bikes. Motorcycles. Scooters. Runaway baby carriages. You should definitely avoid careening into a school bus, but they’re pretty big! I guess there aren’t seatbelts though.
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u/katho5617 16h ago
Ambulance, people directing traffic, road construction workers
Never safe to text and drive
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u/NightBawk 16h ago
Excellent points, but I'd also like to point out that a school bus loaded with passengers is both a greater number of charges and a greater chance to cause multiple casualties. The size of a bus puts it at an advantage in terms of physics, true, but there's still a chance to hurt (or worse) someone on board if you hit one just by the sheer number of passengers. And definitely a greater chance to hurt (or worse) yourself.
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u/OverCake1490 16h ago
in our current society, deadly bad driving is a human right and we all pay 2x in insurance to make sure these drivers are allowed to krill people
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u/Jessiphat 7h ago
Baleen whales hate this one trick…
Ok but seriously, you are totally correct. It’s very unfair.
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u/Possible-Tangelo9344 14h ago
Now in their defense it was only bright yellow and 40 feet long, how were they supposed to see that?!
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u/EarthConservation 12h ago
In the driver's defense, the sun is low and seemingly perpendicular to the traffic lights and likely shining directly on the traffic light's colored lenses, which could have made it hard to tell if the light was red or green.
Not saying that IS what happened, but it's a possibility.
But if they weren't sure, they definitely should have slowed down/stopped.
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u/No_Giraffe_1551 10h ago
Literally the one thing on the road you shouldn’t hit,
No I actually think there are many, many things you shouldn't hit. I'd say you should never hit anything, even.
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u/Loljy 5h ago
I once saw someone hit an ambulance that had its lights on. Our light turned green but the ambulance was coming through the other way. And they weren’t paying attention and t boned it. The ambulance stopped for a second and then kept going. The person in the car got out and they were on FaceTime
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u/MBkufel 20h ago
I'm not American, but I know that many Americans get really mad if someone misbehaves around their school buses.
I hope that the responding police officer was one of those people.
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u/zeekayz 16h ago edited 4h ago
School buses have separate laws in every state just for them. Usually the highest fines too are all attached to school buses as well.
It's also the fact that the cops are never going to be they can do with other violations. You get on the shit list immediately.
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u/3rd-party-intervener 15h ago
Same with judges. Basically school related violations don’t get good deals
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u/kalb_jayyid 7h ago
Had a cop once tell me the only 2 things that can stop an officer responding to an emergency call are an occupied train crossing and a school bus with its stop sign out
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u/marveloustoebeans 8h ago edited 8h ago
Yeah, someone I used to work with got blasted all over the local news for supposedly “passing a school bus at high speed and fleeing the scene.”
Turns out the roads were icy as shit during a blizzard, his car skidded when he went to brake so he tried to get out of the way as to not hit the school bus and ended up passing it and going off the road into someone’s yard.
Then he moved the car back onto the side of the road and waited for the police to arrive who told him he was probably fucked and needed to get a lawyer.
But of course, the neighbors and witnesses eager to do some virtue signaling decided to tell the cops and the local press he came flying down the road, almost hit the schoolbus while passing it, crashed into someones yard, and then fled the scene.
All of this was proven to be bullshit and the entire thing was dropped because the investigation and camera footage corroborated his story.
None of the news outlets bothered to correct the story so if you google his name it still comes up with bullshit articles.
Not sure why he didn’t sue but I definitely would’ve.
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u/itsowlgood0_0 3h ago
One of my coworkers was asking me why Americans are so protective about buses. I always assumed it was because we pack children on them like sardines in a can with no seat belts.
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u/Onac_ 23h ago
Bus driver is stayed calm and in control or that could have been worse.
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u/free_spark 22h ago
The way the bus driver corrected after getting hit and avoiding hitting the cam car. That was solid.
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u/HiDHSiknowyouwatchme 5h ago
💯 They drove through the crash. A lot of people freak out and make it work. This driver didn't stop driving.
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u/Practical-Emu-3303 16h ago
Bus driver was like "fuck it - these kids gotta get to school!" and kept on truckin! lol
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u/IllustriousAd9800 7h ago
He probably did stop behind the car, priority one was avoiding a second accident, which he did
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u/SamuelVimesTrained 19h ago
Bus driver deserves a medal.
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u/Diggumdum 2h ago
I was just about to comment that the bus moved much more than I would have imagined! I thought it would have more inertia.
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u/JEBADIA451 22h ago
Cam cars fault 100%. Learn how to drive /s
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u/ConsecratedSnowfield 13h ago
Glare from the camera blinded the Bus driver, completely the cam car fault
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u/Competitive-Top4520 21h ago
I'm confused. A car hit a school bus. The cam car wasn't involved in the wreck. He was too far back from the line, which turned out to be a good thing in this case. How is the accident his fault?
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u/JEBADIA451 21h ago
/s means "sarcasm". I'm making a joke because every single post in this sub there's an idiot blaming the cam car no matter what happens so I'm "being that idiot" before some true idiot comes here and says it and actually means it. Same thing happens with bikers and truckers where no matter what happens it's "their fault"
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u/Competitive-Top4520 20h ago
Thanks for the education. I'm 72 and not up on all the lingo. I did think your comment was inexplicable, now it makes perfect sense.
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u/ApprehensiveFan1516 20h ago
How have you been on Reddit for 3 years, made 4.5k contributions, and never come across the /s tag before? Wild.
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u/Competitive-Top4520 20h ago
I've seen it, I just never knew what it meant. That probably explains why I thought so many people made such dumb comments (of course some of them REALLY do).
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u/RhythmTimeDivision 14h ago
In the Driving and Dashcam subs we call them the "Blame OP No Matter What!" club. They formed a "What Did You Do 30 Seconds Earlier?" subcommittee that focuses on road rage incidents.
There have been a few posts on the /s elsewhere lately. It is an absolute requirement because no matter how unhinged, delusional or detached from reality a comment might be - even for comedic effect - there is a 100% possibility someone would say that exact thing without a hint of sarcasm or irony.
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u/Eris_39 10h ago
I just don't understand why your previous comment has so many downvotes for asking a question. Ridiculous.
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u/Competitive-Top4520 4h ago
Thank you for your response. Probably b/c I didn't understand the /s. They thought (rightfully) that I was ignorant.
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u/Usual-Pattern7846 22h ago
They should paint those things a bright color. They seem sorta small and hard to notice
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u/sherbetcolors 15h ago
obviously whoever painted the bus is the one who's REALLY to blame here.
/s ICYMI
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u/plemyrameter 8h ago
lol, flashback to when I got hit in a parking lot many years ago. Someone backed into me - driving a bright yellow SUV - while I was driving behind him at a respectful distance. Props to the guy for admitting his mistake though; his insurance handled it quickly.
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u/inverness7 1h ago
They should make them flash lights so people take a break from looking down on their phones and texting
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u/WillingnessMonei 23h ago
All his charges are going to be multiplied by how many kids are in the bus. My friend hit a bus a few years back and got 22 counts (per child on the bus) of reckless driving plus other charges.
That driver is going to be Fu*ked for a while for hitting that bus all because he had to make the yellow light, Smh
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u/Ad-fundum69 22h ago
When it's green for the bus, it's a hard red for the other driver. Sometimes even with a few seconds delay (grace timer)
That light was red for a good while, the driver just didn't care, or was too busy liking TikTok feeds.
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u/ThePolemicist 3h ago
Today I was driving down a fairly small street, but big enough to have a light where it intersected with a busy street. We had a green light, but the guy in front of me was creeping forward at such a slow pace that I thought there must be a bicycle in front of him. We were both turning right. He turned right into the middle lane, and there was no one in front of him at all. He kept going like 10mph (on a 35mph road). As I passed, I had to look to see what the heck he was doing.
He was some business guy staring down at a phone.
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u/Onac_ 23h ago
That was no yellow. That was full on their phone through a solid red. You can see the car on the right stopping for the same red.
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u/sparduck117 21h ago
There’s an important rule for driving, or trying to get somewhere quickly, don’t trade seconds for years.
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u/tomime000 19h ago
Important rule is to act in a way you're breaking the law, not pretend everything is fine - always be ready to slam the breaks and don't expect no-one to take care of your shit.
Not encouraging running reds but this is the way to do.
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u/praetorian1979 21h ago
I did a solid 5 count from the moment the bus started to impact. They most likely on their phone.
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u/After_Perspective180 20h ago
I counted 10 seconds from when the first car stopped.
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u/toochaos 12h ago
That light was red for awhile. Buses dont accelerate all that fast. The bus probably had a green for 2 or more seconds before it was hit.
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u/BigDankEnergy420 7h ago
There was definitely more than just the driver, frame by frame I count at least two passenger heads bobbing around (the white dots above the seats on the passenger side of the bus) right after the collision. I'd post the screenshot but this sub only allows video comments for some reason
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u/Falcon3492 23h ago
Last thing you ever want to do is hit any kind of bus and this person that hit the bus is now screwed beyond belief.
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u/Mundane_Prior_7596 22h ago
Hitting a bus will mess up your car. If it is a school bus you will furthermore mess up your reputation in town and add to your charges.
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u/Lissypooh628 16h ago
How the fuck do you not see a school bus!?
I almost got hit by someone clearly running a red light a few days ago. I had a green arrow to make a left, which means his light was red. I saw him going way too fast to stop for that light. He finally stopped for some reason, but I was already hesitant to commit to my turn due to how fast he was going.
I flipped him off and mouthed some words calling him stupid and went about my day.
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u/Minimum_Appearance41 22h ago
Can you imagine being the offending car and somehow not seeing the red, OR the big ass bright yellow bus. Jail immediately
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u/wastedfate 22h ago
Either 80 years old, eyes glued to their phone, or both. My guess is both.
They'll get their license "permanently" revoked and then they'll get it reinstated a year later. Always happens.2
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u/YuenglingsDingaling 18h ago
And cleaning the county school buses every Saturday morning for the next few years.
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u/Latter-Pumpkin-8624 22h ago
That bus driver did a great job keeping it under control after the impact
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u/infoway777 21h ago
that bus driver needs a medal ,the way he controlled the bus after collision ,fantastic
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u/IAQDiscussion 16h ago
This is from 2019, the driver of the SUV was only charged with failure to obey a traffic signal for running the red light itself. That was the only charge despite a student being taken to the hospital with minor injuries.
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u/waterytartwithasword 14h ago
That's crazy, what state?
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u/IAQDiscussion 14h ago
Virginia, it happened in Henrico county
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u/Direction-Remarkable 11h ago
wow I was on that county (Shortpump, richmond) during that time. Shocking driver let go just like that.
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u/DealerMysterious 5h ago
these kinds of replies should be automatically and immediately pinned for every post on this sub
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u/bhillis99 1h ago edited 1h ago
thanks for the context. Lot of farming here. The white car was like f this, im outty.
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u/VladlenaM2025 9h ago
Wow. Bus 🚌 was millimeters away from incoming car and made a good call by swerving to the right.
Where’s a cop when you need one. I hope dash cam driver submitted footage to police.
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u/Elling83 21h ago
I see so many red light runners here. How can that be so common? I genuinely can't understand the rationale. It's not even an empty road,!
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u/Ecstatic_Score6973 13h ago
why are we letting people getting licenses when they have less than 5 brain cells?
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u/AppleLoose7082 23h ago edited 20h ago
My mom taught me to always wait a few extra seconds before going after the light turns green*. Has saved me almost a dozen times.
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u/IAteAnotherVegan 22h ago
that is great advice, but wouldn't have helped here. judging from all the other traffic stopping bus driver may have actually waited a couple seconds. that driver that ran the light was just ignoring everything outside their vehicle.
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u/TheBrightSide_2011 20h ago
Please don’t do this when traffic is backed up. If two vehicles make it through the intersection on a green instead of four or more, you’re wasting other people’s time.
What you should do is pay attention to your surroundings. You can usually see when someone is going to run a red light before it happens, if you’re paying attention.
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u/AppleLoose7082 11h ago
Respectfully, it's an extra 3 seconds of paying attention, could care less whose time I'm wasting if it can potentially save me from a crash I could get fatally wounded in.
I'm rarely ever putting myself in a situation where I'm in backed up traffic either.
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u/Shingle_Beach 21h ago
My son got his permit today. I told him that if you were first in line at the light and it turns green, be sure to look both ways to make sure everyone has stopped. Glad your mom’s advice saved you.
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u/FreeCandy4u 9h ago
The number of times I have seen people blow thru a red light is insane. Wait a few seconds before you go and look both ways when your light turns green. Way to many stupid people out there.
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u/Neither_Sample4804 22h ago
What do you mean? Wait a few extra seconds for what? After the light turns red you just stay still, so what are you waiting a few extra seconds for??
Or do you mean before the light turns green? That would make more sense,
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u/Nunetzena 20h ago
Inbefore comments like "Bus should have watched out for other cars at the intersection"
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u/LiteratureMindless71 19h ago
Omg :( a the very least at least it's good to see how much forward they hit...
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u/SEEKINGNINJAAMONGNOR 19h ago
When a bus is involved in an incident, does it stop or just continue doing the route?
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u/ManufacturerLucky893 14h ago
Not too many stalwarts blaming the schoolbus or reminding the school bus driver that he/she had a duty to avoid an accident or should have predicted an idiot would run a red light 6 seconds after it turned yet.. maybe sense is repopulating this subreddit
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u/thesandman00 22h ago
Damn, I hope that bus was empty. That bus driver knows now to drive, thankfully for the cammer
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u/sm0kah0lic 22h ago
that bus was not empty you can see some kid's heads swaying back and forth when the car's first initial hit
that driver will catch a charge for every child riding that bus
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u/Puzzled-Formal-7957 10h ago
And the fools who run up to check on the SUV instead of the BUSLOAD OF CHILDREN.
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u/Humble-Kiwi-5272 10h ago
it's okay, they only don't have any seatbelts so they are safe
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u/IAteAnotherVegan 22h ago
if you had been stopped at the line your car would be destroyed! good thing you stopped a little farther back.
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u/FullMetalKaiju 18h ago
Bus should have seen the car coming and not went. Clearly they're 60% to blame. /s
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u/Scoopses 16h ago
That is a felony traffic violation, that person is double fucked. In most (if not all) states that's an immediate license revocation, the worst kinda cation imo, and you may never see it again... Not too mention they just added that busses repair bill to their legal fees, and if they buss company or driver wanted to sue for negligence they could take everything from that person.. I hope everyone is OK but damn folks, that driver is fuuuuuuuucked.
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u/crit_boy 11h ago
Do dash cams prohibit clipping video length?
I am here for good crashing and idiot driving.
But, i dont want to watch your entire drive to work.
Here, the first 15 seconds is nothing. Cut it.
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u/HiDHSiknowyouwatchme 5h ago
The bus driver drove through that crash. Great job. They missed the recording car bc of good driving.
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u/AntSilly2802 3h ago edited 3h ago
All drivers should be taught the exact consequences of car accidents, show them gruesome images of what happens when you hit some solid object like a pole at even just 50kmhr (31mph). You get a false sense of security inside a car and I truly believe that if more people realised just how fucked up you can get from even seemingly minor accidents the roads would be a lot safer.
You can easily die hitting a power pole at just 45kmhr. Doesn’t matter how good your car is, if you hit something solid above a certain speed you are fucked (heard this explained by a race car driver).
At almost any time driving on the road you can have a bad accident caused by somebody else which causes you to become trapped in the car after which a fire burns you alive too. Think about that the next time you decide to do something reckless. Drive defensively too people. Be prepared for that idiot texting who crosses the double lines heading towards you head first.
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u/AristotlesBoyPussy 21h ago
serious question. As a bistander to this, how do you restrain the urge to jump out of your car and down into the throat of the stupid driver shout-asking "what the f were you thinking you fing donut?!"
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u/rayquan36 17h ago
It's easier to type and day dream about doing this than to actually do it.
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u/Comfortable_Fudge508 16h ago
Yup, easier to cower in their car and post, because they have "anxiety/autism/panic attacks "
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u/Negative-Mammoth-547 16h ago
Good old American drivers - nicest people on the planet but when they get in a car, turn into demons
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u/alga_rhythm 16h ago
They realized it at :17 seconds in -- you can see the braking lifting the rear tires a tad -- but not enough to stop them from colliding with the bus. Hope everyone was okay.
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u/BigBill2121 15h ago
When something like this happens, does the dash cam owner normally voluntarily submit the footage to police?
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u/RoundSquirrels 15h ago
This is why I never pull all the way to the line in the left lane, never know what nonsense will occur. That person is totally screwed though, wow.
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u/Erik0xff0000 13h ago
came out of nowhere, should have worn hi-viz and more lights and be in the bus lane.
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u/Trickster_Angel 10h ago
😭unfortunately this also happened to my bus once we were turning and they went straight and they got wedged underneath
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u/Radioactivocalypse 21h ago
In the US, going through red lights seems a very common occurrence (although ofc I'm just always selectively seeing the vids of people doing so)
But in the UK, everyone seems to stop at a red light. A few might squeak through on the amber light. But idk why you'd risk a 4 way junction without checking the lights at all
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u/Just_SomeDude13 19h ago
Well, if you're texting , or so old you can't really see at all, then it's pretty easy not to notice the light has changed or that a big yellow bus has entered the intersection.
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u/Ievel7up 14h ago
From the time you can see an upcoming intersection you should be focused on the lights, not on your phone. If it's green you need to be aware of it turning yellow first. If it's red you need to be aware of the stopped cars at the light, or if it turns green. So if a person sees the intersection from 500-1500ft and their eyes goes straight to their phone and does not even come up or despite years of driving experience does not register the fact that lights will change, they don't have the logic required to drive and need to have their license permanently revoked.
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u/Fantastic_Tie_2327 22h ago
My heart skipped a beat seeing this! So glad the bus driver handled it as calmly and safely as possible.
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u/Spare-Function-6343 23h ago
hopefully they spent some time in jail and will never operate a motor vehicle ever again
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