(25 Jan 2023, 10:20 pm)Unber43 wrote Can GNE really afford that atm tho?
Also shouldn't it depend on the severity, for example there was a bus scrapped the side of the bus station on the island scrapped it and broke a panel, or would it be just careless fast driving which caused the issue, what about badly parked cars and the buses are attempting to turn and hits the side of a car?
Would all of these just be dismissal?
Hitting an island in a bus station is punishment territory mind, that island could've been a person in a different place and is very poor driving. Poorly parked cars then it's the person who parked the car at fault imo. Dismissal maybe not but it's not excusable.
(25 Jan 2023, 10:41 pm)nova347 wrote But aren't all crashes miscalculations, humans arent perfect. They might just pull into a stop a tiny bit too early hitting another bus mirror, unless its like completely reckless driving where they deserve their licenses revoked.
Ive seen loads of drivers who have crashed and I've seen the a few days/weeks later.
Similar with wing mirrors, that could've been a pensioner who was standing too close to the curb and potentially a fatal. Not excusable either.
I'm not one who likes slagging driver's off but if you start letting people off left right and centre then what is the limit, when someone is killed? when a bus ends up in a tree injuring everyone on board?
Bus driving has been appalling recently to the stage to dangerous lately, I don't exactly appreciate 2T vehicles cutting corners going 50 mph and nearly being wiped out like I was the other week in the car with someone else or some car in the opposite direction making a mistake and pulling out in front of a bus and the bus just pulling out anyway and being inches from wiping them out which we would've no doubt been involved in aswell. Utterly ridiculous. I respect there's a shortage but it feels like they're letting anyone literally behind the wheel lately, it's just a matter of time there's a fatal accident up here. I did see there's been a nasty accident in Sunderland with Stagecoach today though.