• Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Would it be in poor taste to suggest the bus driver who caused the crash was possibly paid or otherwise coerced to do so? Accidents happen, to anyone, but still…

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      3 months ago

      Why was a school bus going 68mph? Especially in the UK where much less time is spent on freeways.

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          Yea I think its likely it happened there as the speed was given in kph, we still mostly use mph in the UK and I could be wrong as I’m not a parent but I’m not aware of “school buses” really being a thing here. We didn’t have them when I was a kid outside of coach services being brought in for school trips but that was quite some time ago.

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        3 months ago

        I don’t live in the UK but I do drive school bus and we go up to 70 on the freeway. Some districts limit to 60 but that can very often be more dangerous because of the traffic around.

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        3 months ago

        I dunno. Growing up in the 1980s, my school bus drivers did stuff that should have landed them in prison.

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            3 months ago

            I’ve only heard them called motorways in the UK. It’s obviously pretty close to equivalent of course.

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      3 months ago

      It’s in poor taste to speculate about blame with very little information.

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          3 months ago

          Writing that the royals paid someone to crash into this woman’s car with almost no details about the crash is misinformation. It easily spreads. We need to make social media more fact-based wherever it’s in our control.

          If I were the bus driver and this were an accident, I’d be worried about what conspiracy wackaloons might do to get revenge. Andrew is a lot harder to touch than some middle class Australian bus driver.

          If you didn’t like someone threatening a pizza restaurant, then you should be a bit more restrained about a story like this.

          Already people are taking the lack of reporting of the crash even happening as evidence of a cover up.

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        3 months ago

        It would be a powerful message to other would-be whistleblowers. “It might take a decade but if you oppose us, you will eventually pay the ultimate price”.