Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: moviePig Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Auto accident versus collision; I was wrong Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:25:16 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: nobody@nowhere.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 22:25:16 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="97ddce511c82dc0b54c55eef1c2e5bb8"; logging-data="1787831"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1901ymb+gC+Mq0Mpzpb2oKTHi8OV6SxKVg=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:4FxJJQIAEWKniStbOOn2l3Oso3w= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3047 On 3/19/2025 4:32 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > On Mar 19, 2025 at 1:15:23 PM PDT, "moviePig" wrote: > >> On 3/19/2025 3:43 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>> On Mar 19, 2025 at 10:30:16 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Rhino 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.