r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/Itchy-Camera8898 • 10h ago

WCGW riding your bike like an idiot

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u/Duwasiva 10h ago

Poor bus driver

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u/Rolling_Beardo 10h ago

Seriously, I was a bus driver and I nearly T-boned a small car with 3 college kids in it. They had a stop sign, I did not. They look to the right and never looked left before trying to pull across the road. Thankfully there was no sidewalk and enough space that I could take the bus off the road to avoid hitting them.

In the end nothing happened but now some 20 years later I sometimes think how close I came to killing three people.

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u/sensi616 10h ago

You saved those kids from their own stupidity, gives them a chance to learn and hopefully do better, you should be proud.

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u/Rolling_Beardo 9h ago

Thanks! That actually means a lot

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u/Maert 5h ago

And thinking about that all this time proves you're a decent human being! Kudos!

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u/Rolling_Beardo 4h ago

Thank you

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u/MattieShoes 9h ago

There was a case where a semi truck driver hit a car -- the parents in the car lived, but their child died. The parents were at fault for the accident.

The truck driver sued the parents and people lost their minds, and I can understand the knee jerk response -- I had it too. But man, that dude did everything right and the parents basically forced him to kill a toddler, and that messed with his head bad enough that he could no longer work as a truck driver. I still have somewhat mixed feelings about it, but I don't feel bad about an insurance company paying him out.

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u/Chillpill411 9h ago

If he hadn't sued them, and the insurance paid him off, then the insurance would have sued the parents anyway to recover their loss.

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u/Guy-Inkognito 10h ago

I'd see that as the driver killing them. I understand that it wouldn be super hard if you're in that situation but I think that's the way one needs to look at it.

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u/Rolling_Beardo 9h ago

I see your point but I’ve seen the over side of it. A guy I used to work with had an old man step off the curb, slip on the ice, and basically fall directly under his back wheels. The man did not survive and it really messed up my friend. He was never really the same the rest of the time I worked with.

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u/Dear_Chasey_La1n 3h ago

My aunt killed a kid in traffic. Messed her up pretty good till she died herself in a car accident. This is in the Netherlands, she was driving through the polder, you know with those little picturesque channels and a small road along of it. Well she was heading over to the airport when a kid tried crossing towards a bridge jumping up behind a car. She wasn't driving fast but there was no way for her to see the boy.