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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: Auto accident versus collision; I was wrong
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:25:16 -0400
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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.