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After watching the video the bus drivers arrest is warranted. Any fool with half a brain would know better than to attempt to drive into a flooded, running water roadway.
Well sure they would. Like as Sassy pointed out pages ago, if the driver was unfamiliar with the roadway especially when it floods. Imagine if they arrested all those drivers in FL for ignoring a barricade. Of course, from the photos posted, they would need a barricade literally everywhere, lol.
The driver may have a depth perception issue or something - you never know. I would have personally felt between a rock and a hard place. I think I might be able to make it (which I am wrong), it is a moving violation for me to back a school bus up an incline and around a curve, and maybe if I floor it I'll make it across.
As for being scared, my heart would of been in my throat all the way down the creek and off into the woods. I know I would have been praying to all my favorite higher powers and dead relatives to get us out of this mess alive.
If they can prove the driver was drunk or on drugs, I would be good with his arrest. Ignoring a barricade you can hardly see? I'm not good with that.
Exactly. If this driver is from, say, Florida, seeing something like this would not stop him from driving through it. Virtually ALL roads here look like this at some point or another. The barriers were barely even visible.
If anything, the county/city needs to do something about that road. To think, there are houses right off of it? The bigger issue here, IMO, is the actual road.
Wow I came in prepared to defend the bus driver but after watching the video that was just an inexcusable decision to cross that flooded road.
Same here. They can ford water, but nothing that damn deep, if it were three feet, maybe four, which he probably thought it was, sure, it was still wrong but I don't think it warrants an arrest.
It's not just about how deep it was and whether the vehicle would have been submerged. The power of the water (even at a more shallow depth) could have washed that bus down the river.
A 17,000lb International Saf-T-Liner? There are jeeps that have crossed similar. It was a road, not a river. Though, if he purposely went around some sort of barricade, he's stupid. But I suspect that in that area sometimes flood areas are unavoidable, it's often like that here.
A 17,000lb International Saf-T-Liner? There are jeeps that have crossed similar. It was a road, not a river. Though, if he purposely went around some sort of barricade, he's stupid. But I suspect that in that area sometimes flood areas are unavoidable, it's often like that here.
Did you watch the video in the link? The force of the water did indeed carry the bus into the "river-like water" (to use language from the link)
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Exactly. If this driver is from, say, Florida, seeing something like this would not stop him from driving through it. Virtually ALL roads here look like this at some point or another. The barriers were barely even visible.
If anything, the county/city needs to do something about that road. To think, there are houses right off of it? The bigger issue here, IMO, is the actual road.
In this case, the reason you can't see the barricades is because they're nearly underwater, but still visible.
It had been raining here for days, and everyone had heard, ad nauseum, "turn around, don't drown".
There were many, many closed "low water crossings". We are at the foothills of the Texas Hill Country, and where you've got hills, you've got valleys. And in flooding condition situations, you've got roads closed to flooding. I have to change my path out of my neighborhood frequently during rains, because the main road is closed for flooding.
For the county to put all roads above the flood zone would break the bank. So we do the next best thing, which is put safety warning barricades up, and by and large people have the brains not to drive through them.
interesting and shocking to find this video online. https://youtu.be/BP59hS4dono
Surprisingly this school bus full of kids actually made it all the way across.
These type of videos only had probably encouraged copycats to follow such dangerous example to see if he could get lucky, and post his video of success online(after he quits his job of course) and have a story to tell.
interesting and shocking to find this video online. https://youtu.be/BP59hS4dono
Surprisingly this school bus full of kids actually made it all the way across.
These type of videos only had probably encouraged copycats to follow such dangerous example to see if he could get lucky, and post his video of success online(after he quits his job of course) and have a story to tell.
That is not a school bus. It's a public transit bus in Nicaragua. That was during a flood eight years ago, and the buses were the only way to get through the flood. At least one passenger on that bus had to get to a hospital. Most other people were waiting there for the water to go down. Also the water in that video was not even over the wheels on the bus. That is a bit different then this guy taking a kid on a joy ride into five feet of water for no good reason.
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