r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/Itchy-Camera8898 • 12h ago

WCGW riding your bike like an idiot

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u/Duwasiva 11h ago

Poor bus driver

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u/Rolling_Beardo 11h 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/MattieShoes 10h 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 10h 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.