Re: Auto accident versus collision; I was wrong

On 2025-03-19 21:25:16 +0000, moviePig said:

On 3/19/2025 4:32 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Mar 19, 2025 at 1:15:23 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

On 3/19/2025 3:43 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Mar 19, 2025 at 10:30:16 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com>
wrote:

Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
 

. . .

 

When I was driving school buses, I found that my employers never used
the word "accident". If someone hit something while driving their bus, even if it was the merest scratch, it was never an accident: it was *always* a collision. (I'm sure this would have been true if a person were hit, although I don't recall anyone ever hitting a person while I worked there.) I feel sure this was their way of making us take responsibility for what had happened. We didn't get to say anything that implied that whatever happened couldn't be helped in some way. Even if we weren't at fault, I think they expected that we could have done something to prevent or minimize the event. Drivers were always taken off the road for a day or two and made to have a retraining session with another driver after a collision.

 Your employer wasn't wrong: there was a collision.
 I was a school bus driver too. We were told we would be blamed for a
rear end collision (the vehicle behind colliding with the rear of the
school bus) regardless of what the law said, because they always wanted
us to leave adequate distance behind the vehicle ahead of the bus.

 How do you control how much distance there is behind you from other traffic?

 Use your accelerator.

 And if there's traffic in front of you also?

 Use your steering wheel.

If all else fails, there's always the hidden Knight-Rider-style 'turbo boost' button to jump the bus over any traffic.  ;-)