I take public transportation. I realize that driving a bus isn’t easy. But – maybe, I dunno, you missed this part of the bus driver training – there is no excuse for running over my friend and DRAGGING her under your multi-ton mangle machine!!!
She wasn’t jaywalking, you mold-brained toenail clipping! She had a green light and a walk sign, and was crossing in the crosswalk. You, on the other hand, were making a right turn on red. I’ll bet you were looking the other way to make sure you didn’t hit any oncoming cars. Did you even stop for the red light?
Did it even register in your neutrino-absorbing mind that you were next to a hospital, which might attract pedestrians that can’t, or are a bit too distracted to, leap nimbly out of your way? My friend was going to visit her hospitalized stepfather. Thanks a bunch for fucking her day up even more. Be glad the state of California doesn’t believe in eye/eye tooth/tooth as much as I do – otherwise, once my friend regained as much use of her leg as she could, she’d be behind the wheel of the bus.
Good god, blink! How badly injured was she? The regaining the use of her leg thing…are we talking a broken tibia, a broken femur, reconstructive surgery and intense physical therapy?
I hope she’s okay…and the driver of that bus gets disciplined. Did he even stop? Did someone get a name or bus number?
I don’t know any more details … I do know that her shitty HMO has sent her home already, but she’s going to have to see a specialist about her leg. I don’t really know how extensive the injuries were, but just the thought of someone getting hit by a bus makes me shiver.
I do think, however, that the bus driver stopped, and even talked to the police. A lot of people are suggesting that my friend sue him dry.
The other day, some I was with some friends in San Francisco. We were swinging by the apartment of one of them, and there were a bunch of cops outside and a Muni bus parked at the curb. Turns out, the driver had been pulling away from the curb and some guy was running to catch up with it. Somehow, the guy got his head caught between the side of the bus and a street lamp, and he popped his head off. And the only thing I could think was, “The fucking bus comes every fifteen minutes. The poor guy could have been fifteen minutes late to wherever he was going, but instead he’s just late.”
And imagine being the guy sitting at that window! God, that’s creepy.
They guy was on his way out of town heading to LA for a new, better higher paying radio show. It was his last day or something, and he could have been in a rush, but he decided to take it easy and not risk anything.
He ended up getting hit by someone who was in a rush, and spent 6+ months of reconstructive work to repair his spine.
Miller - do you have a newspaper cite for this accident? I did a Google on San Francisco muni bus decapitation and didn’t find anything. Did you actually see this, or is this a UL>?
In defense of bus drivers, I think most are professionals doing a fairly thankless job. Then there’s the other 10 or so percent. Like the bus driver that honked at me and crabbily waved at me to get out of his way when I was walking in a crosswalk in front of him - he was right by the curb, and when I got to the edge of his bus, I peeked out into traffic to make sure no one was whizzing by him to cream me. Took too long apparently - I guess I was just supposed to run as fast as I could in front of him and take my chances that other cars wouldn’t pass a bus, stopped by the curb, cause you know you never see that in the city. :rolleyes: