Bus Drivers!!

Post by **rob quilter** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 7:59 am

nitin_s1 wrote:

Swollen knee?

Post by **lewd lude lover** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 10:47 am

paul bristol uk wrote:
lewd lude lover wrote:its in the highway code mate.

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Buses, coaches and trams. Give priority to these vehicles when you can do so safely, especially when they signal to pull away from stops. Look out for people getting off a bus or tram and crossing the road.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTr ... /DG_069858

Now stop being a twonk and use your eyes. He was perfectly in the right and you acted like a child.

you deserve -rep to be honest. Learn the rules of the road or GET THE drokk OUT
Thats bollocks its good manners to let the bus out if possible but not the law to do so. I,or my refference material, have not said he was breaking the law. I said at best he was guilty of bad manners and at worst 'driving without due care and attention'. If he had driven into the side of the bus thats the charge he would have been facing. *shrug

"Many of the rules in the Code are legal requirements, and if you disobey these rules you are committing a criminal offence. You may be fined, given penalty points on your licence or be disqualified from driving. In the most serious cases you may be sent to prison. Such rules are identified by the use of the words ‘MUST/MUST NOT’. In addition, the rule includes an abbreviated reference to the legislation which creates the offence. An explanation of the abbreviations can be found in 'The road user and the law'."

From
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/travelandtr ... /dg_070236

I fail to see how this can be bollocks as its taken FROM THE SAME SOURCE AS YOURS

My point is that nitin COULD and SHOULD have followed the rules of the road. He COULD have let the bus out safely but he chose to ignore it. as such he is guilty of bad manners at least.

Sorry paul but rather alot of rules are there as a guide to 'not being a twonk' rather than to punish the wrongdoer. nitin could have avoided twonkhood by knowing the etiquet of the road better.

Post by **rob quilter** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 11:10 am

lewd lude lover wrote:twonkhood

This needs adding to the urban dictionary

Post by **paul bristol uk** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 6:04 pm

OK Nitin is guilty of twonkhood but has not contraviened the road traffic act.

So if the said twonk was following 2 other cars at the speed limit say 30MPH The bus driver could count one... two.. and then pull straight out and nerf the afore mentioned twonk in the side and possibly into the path of oncoming traffic which could also be travelling at30MPH making a 60MPH impact?

Rocky · Post by **Rocky** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 6:41 pm

paul bristol uk wrote: possibly into the path of oncoming traffic which could also be travelling at30MPH making a 60MPH impact?

I'll just leave this here.
http://warp.povusers.org/grrr/collisionmath.html

Sorry it's just an annoyance of mine and this is the best description I've seen on the web.

Post by **4thgenphil** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 6:50 pm

Rocky wrote:
paul bristol uk wrote: possibly into the path of oncoming traffic which could also be travelling at30MPH making a 60MPH impact?
I'll just leave this here.
http://warp.povusers.org/grrr/collisionmath.html

Sorry it's just an annoyance of mine and this is the best description I've seen on the web.

interesting!

vti2003 · Post by **vti2003** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 7:15 pm

Rocky wrote:
paul bristol uk wrote: possibly into the path of oncoming traffic which could also be travelling at30MPH making a 60MPH impact?
I'll just leave this here.
http://warp.povusers.org/grrr/collisionmath.html

Sorry it's just an annoyance of mine and this is the best description I've seen on the web.

It is easy to get confused between relative speed and impact speed

The news and police don't help as they always get it wrong as well!

Post by **paul bristol uk** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 7:39 pm

Still going to cause a mess though!

vti2003 · Post by **vti2003** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 7:43 pm

Oh Yes!!

And to be fair if the bus hit a car head on the maths all change and the car would feel and look like it had had a 60mph crash while the bus wouldn't!

JayJay · Post by **JayJay** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 8:15 pm

Just to put some input in, I understand why the bus driver will edge out and attempt to pull out in front of people.

The other morning we were waiting in a traffic queue to get to work, now I have to cross the stream of traffic coming from the mountain road which in the morning is non-stop. If the cars in front of me didn't edge in to the road and get in the way of oncoming vehicles (after about almost 10 minutes of waiting for the stream of cars to finish/someone to let us through) we would have been sitting there for another 10 minutes.

Now it was the same situation at a roundabout my housemate was at the same morning I think. Due to the traffic a truck couldn't get through the roundabout far enough to not be blocking cars off. So he had to wait, but due to the traffic he couldn't go at all. In the end he just had to go, even though he wound up blocking the traffic until he could get all the way around, just so he could actually get out.

It's all good and well saying "he shouldn't just pull out", but if he's trying to get somewhere and no-one is letting him out you can understand why he'd do that, sometimes you just have to get in the way of cars to go anywhere. Imagine yourself at an intersection, but instead of someone stopping and letting you through they just stop and block you from entering. Same thing.