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I'd like it to be a bit more often than that for professional drivers actually. A full on driving test each time might be a bit excessive, but some kind of regular "human MOT" would be good.
In particular I am thinking of that bin lorry driver in Glasgow who "blacked out" behind the wheel. -
As for the 77 year old bus driver... I am currently working with a 63 year old who I swear just disconnects sometimes. Just brief moments with a completely vacant stare, and I suspect that those moments more or less resets her entire brain. Luckily we only have white collar office jobs so there isn't any significant harm, but I worry as she occasionally drives to work.
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that case was a fucking disgrace. The procurator fiscal made the inexplicable decision not to prosecute the driver-opening up speculation that if he'd been found guilty the Council would have themselves been open to negligence charges for failing to check his background record before employing him. The civil case then failed, and the cunt was seen driving uninsured and unlicensed to the shops and back...
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Any idea what he's up to now? If I had caused the death of 6 innocent people, whatever the circumstances, I would seriously consider offing myself.
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well he's gotten back behind the wheel again despite the risk of further blackouts/killing more people so I'd say he's not too remorseful about it, apart from that I really don't know. Wouldn't surprise me if he just lied again to get another job but hopefully he's so notorious nobody will touch him.
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A newer article, this one says six injured, not nine:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/aug/10/bus-crashes-shop-south-london-clapham-injured
I think the driver would have been most at risk, along with any passengers in the front row at the top, but it seems the bus mainly hit on its left side. Still, anyone sitting on the left side in the front row at the top could have come off very badly, I hope that's not the case.
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That could be--two passengers according to this:
"Two female passengers are trapped on the top deck of the bus, crews are working to free them.
"The passengers are both conscious and breathing."
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That's worrying, you can see where the yellow bar at the front(usually by the window) and the little hole the driver can look up into are folded all the way in.
So lucky no pedestrians got caught between, that pavement is usually very busy with people walking to/from clapham junction.
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Various guardian angels seem to have been at work here:
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More 'building crashing into cars'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-40986193
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I think it was not only the low wall around the deck but also part of the deck that came loose.
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A bad one:
No mention at all of what happened to the driver, but I suspect they must have got out unscathed. As seems evident from incidents linked to in this thread, it's very unusual for a crash like this to cause such a bad fire.
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The poor bloke snoozing on his sofa must've got the shock of his life when this self driving car (I assume it's self driving as the car crashed into the building without human intervention) smashed into his house;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-41140279
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Well, there is mention of a driver:
A man in his 20s, believed to be the driver, has been arrested.
There is the odd article that doesn't mention any human agency at all, though.
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I'd guess there was probably some unfitness (is that a word?) to drive which the employers should have been aware of, I wonder if there are more stringent rules on testing (by the company) over-65s or something or documents that needed to be in place.