Narrow miss. Bus and student on his mobile

DH was late home one night. It turned out that he was behind a blameless woman driver when a group of youngsters just shot in front of her car. She couldn't help hitting one of them who collapsed on the road. The others disappeared. The poor woman driver was distraught. DH called an ambulance and the police and stayed with her until they arrived and made a witness statement to support the driver. She was in a state. Poor soul. We never heard any more about it so the Police must have believed him.

Spuddy

My hubby is an ex-bus driver and I'm an ex-bus route learner - I taught the drivers - and have experience countless idiots like that student who are more obsessed with their stupid mobiles than their lives.

Thank you for backing up the driver! I'm convinced that our planet is used by being from other planets as a lunatic asylum!

My son is a bus driver,have told him he should write a book about his work life. Would be a best seller as well as an eye opener .

Should say gamble, better , as I'm sure they do value their lives, just ignorant of their role in keeping safe.

Just this morning , near miss with woman on mobility scooter, suddenly decided she would cross the road, no slowing down, just turned quickly onto crossing. Good job I had my wits
about me, because she certainly didn't.
So not only students who don't value their lives.

Some can be as guilty just walking about on footpaths, too. (Not just youngsters, I hasten to add). Totally oblivious of anyone approaching , then glare at said person as if it’s not their fault if they either nearly or do, crash into you.

Also, and this is something I was taught when learning to drive, people are disorientated when they get off a bus and will quite often just walk into the road without looking properly. I actually scored a few brownie points on my driving test by being very cautious when driving past a bus. Mind you I’d probably fail my test on it now for being too slow and over cautiouse.

Yesterday morning, on the way to Church, a teenager shot out of a concealed road, straight in front of a car. The youngster was on one of those electric scooters.
How the driver missed him I don't know. But shook us up.

Saw something like that a few weeks ago in a car park - a young man with head phones talking in his phone walked right across a driver who was reversing out of his parking space. The young man didn't even notice the car nearly hit him and just ambled across, whereas I had my heart in my mouth as I suspect the driver did to. Fortunately he was going slowly.

I also see a similar thing when parents are out with their young children, some two, three or four years of age. The parents are on their phones with earphones in and the toddlers are walking behind them. Anyone could snatch them and their parents would not have a clue.

When these phone obsessed people get to be in their 60's and 70's, they will have no recollection of their early years as they were on their phones all the time.

Oh yes. The running across the road in dark clothes at 5.30 on a dark wet winter evening to catch a bus or dark clothes on a light less bike. I drive down the A30 beside the Royal Holloway College. How I have missed some young people, and I am a careful driver as I know the road which is just as well. But many drivers won't know it.

I live in a University City and one area is a nightmare. I’ve seen students step onto crossings without giving traffic a chance to stop.
Many press the button, but step out immediately, not waiting for their green walk sign, especially when in groups.
I’ve seen them just walking on the road, rather than using the footpath in one place. The path is narrow, but so is the road there and traffic has to give way to let buses through.

Often they have their phones clamped to their ears, or they have ear-buds. Even without any distractions, some seem to think they have a God-given right to jaywalk and that traffic will stop for them. It’s frightening!

I’ve appealed here for anyone who knows a student who uses a bicycle around Durham to ensure they have lights, because so many don’t and on dark/wet evenings, wearing dark clothing, they’re almost invisible.

I know locals are probably just as bad, but this is an area of Durham primarily used by students on their way to and from lectures.

He had those big headphones on.

I wonder if the student had ear buds in?

My hubby is an ex-bus driver and I'm an ex-bus route learner - I taught the drivers - and have experience countless idiots like that student who are more obsessed with their stupid mobiles than their lives.

Thank you for backing up the driver! I'm convinced that our planet is used by being from other planets as a lunatic asylum!