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Subject: Re: Auto accident versus collision; I was wrong
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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.  ;-)