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A schoolbus, stopping in front of a residential home, is rear ended by a full size truck (cdn.imgchest.com)
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https://www.syracuse.com/news/2026/05/two-adults-and-4-children-injured-after-pickup-rear-ends-central-ny-school-bus.html

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[–] 261 points 5 months ago (25 children)

The initial investigation indicates that the pickup driver was following the bus too closely,

Nothing to do with too close, there's plenty of distance. They just didn't stop.

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  • [–] 156 points 5 months ago (11 children)

    Yeah. The driver of the truck wasn't paying attention.

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  • [–] 101 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    And was going way too fast.

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  • [–] 25 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    And was driving a ridiculously oversized fragile ego compensation vehicle

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I mean, you can drive a ridiculously oversized fragile ego compensation vehicle and also keep under the speed limit, watch out and brake on time

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  • [+] -16 points 5 months ago (5 children)
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  • [–] 30 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Speed limits can be useful to reduce accidents (though I do think they're also often used to line the state's pockets, especially on highways) but the fundamental responsibility is on the driver to drive at an appropriate speed for the context and conditions.

    If you can't stop in time to avoid an accident such as a bus gently stopping, the speed limit is totally irrelevant -- it's on the driver to be alert and in control.

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  • [–] 55 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    There's was an Olympics swimming pool worth of distance between them. The driver was clearly playing with their phone, not looking out the windscreen.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Huh, I've never heard "Olympics swimming pool" used to measure something that isn't liquid. Isn't the proper freedom unit of length measured in "football fields"?

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    As an American who is bad at sportzball and has no interest in it, it only recently dawned on me that the reason so many people use yards to estimate distances is because of football, and possibly shooting ranges, which I also have no interest in.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    How about a compromise? You use the metric system, km in specific; BUT, you get to call them "clicks" so you sound like you are in the military?

    (j/k I'm also American and I only use km for running distances, not driving distances.)

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    When your intake valves are clogged with lunchables and protractors, yeah…you’re too close.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Protractors? That must be a typo, right?

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Why does every "initial investigation" made into literally anything always come to the most shockingly, obviously wrong conclusion. Did they not have this video?

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    In a terminally car-centric society, the idea that drivers are inherently stupid and unsafe and that most people should be using public transport so they can look at their phones as much as they obviously want to is blasphemy. So they always come up with the story that leaves the driver with the least amount of fault and no real repercussions; was he using his phone and totally distracted? No! He was following too closely and the bus slammed on its brakes! Totally unavoidable accident where no one needs to be slapped on the wrist or have their licence taken away.

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