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This is a very close call. Happened in a polish city in November.
Recording is of a dashcam of a public bus.
Repeat after me: "NEVER overtake a vehicle at a zebra crossing!"
jerwelch66
Everything's cool, those weren't even zebras.
Tanksti
Never heard it called a zebra crossing before.. was looking for the zebra cross here sign.
Link01
When you're stopped watch your mirror and get ready to lay on the horn.
AFSamizdat
Sobering reminder to slow down when approaching crosswalks. We're taught here to 'shadow the break', stop gasing, whether you see or not.
SometimesIBarkWhenMyDogBarks
NEVER overtake a vehicle at a zebra crossing!
torillatavataan
The Finnish traffic ticket high score for this particular stunt seems to be 77808 euros: https://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000005138327.html
VodkaReindeer
Never trust drivers to not pass a stopped vehicle.
8FootedAlgaeEater
Instead of calling them something harmless to lull them into a sense of false security, they should be called Death Stripes or Splatter Bars
IAmTheCloser
People do it all the time here, and here pedestrians have the right of way, but nobody follows that rule, which I think actually is a law.
TheyCallMeJimmyButMyNameIsJames
They have zebras in Poland? I thought they were in Africa or somewhere further south.
noReallyIamPrincessBob
No zebras crossing in my area. They have to fend for themselves. Those kids should watch out though, that was close.
lawrin1725
....zebra crossing..
iamagrocerybag
Yeah, that's what it's called.
LizardRatMouse
Back in day I've been hitching a lot. One of the driver showed me where he killed two kids leaving school bus. Mind the others.
SickOfThisCessPool
Used to happen to me almost every day while walking to work.
MultiplePersonalitiesProfile
I’m from Brazil (horrible drivers) and Poland scared me a little. Was doing 100kmh in a 70 road, and every other car was passing me fast.
WolfRamX4
Darn, that was a lot of points...
Tibbs
And Never overtake then turn left (or which ever side of the road your on)
Googol30
Seems like attempted murder to me, boss.
Frio937
Manslaughter but yeah, I agree.
lordsupafly
Actually you can. I fell for this trick question on my theoretical exam: car standing still before zebra, can you pass? Aparently you 1/?
wheredoisign
but at walking speed, please
lordsupafly
can. If there are no pedestrians. I found that a dirty trick question. If a car stops for pedestrians it's illegal to overtake.
maninthedarkness
This is why vehicular homicide should not be considered separate from other manslaughter charges. Too many get away with a lesser sentence>
maninthedarkness
> because of that bullshit. Your car/truck/van is a weapon, and should be treated with the same respect as any other weapon, and the same >
maninthedarkness
> consequences when you do not.
FlatPlutoSociety
"If you want to kill someone and serve as little time in prison as possible, hit them with your car." - criminal law prof I had in college
kittybuttwiggle
Here's a fuckface who does this and actually nails a kid https://youtu.be/cKjJxQ54lVQ (kid is fine)
Pafolo
Damn, couldn’t even see the kid till it was to late with that sun glare.
squintish
Couldnt even see the kid OR the crosswalk.
Mohareb
Man i got worried about those kids.
whatintarnation9
They call them zebra crossings?
SlyeFox
Because of the stripes.
whatintarnation9
I get that. We just call them crosswalks.
SlyeFox
In the UK they're pedestrian crossings, but each type of crossing has a name, eg Zebra, Pelican, Toucan, Puffin, Pegasus, ect.
whatintarnation9
How interesting.
wasitsomethingisaid
A UPS driver saved my life by honking as I crossed in front of him. A driver blew through in the next lane. Thanks Brown.
imanatheistdebateme
If you're one of those people who drive thinking, "I'd rather kill someone than be late," then please die soon.
JadeNB1729
“If you’d rather kill someone than be late, start with yourself.”
HRpuffnstuf
I’d like to blame the driver but he may have just thought the bus was stopping for riders and not thought twice about it.
SlyeFox
In the middle of an intersection?
schlummi
Zebra crossings are usually VERY visible. https://media-cdn.sueddeutsche.de/image/sz.1.4595619/704x396 But not matter why: he is still to
schlummi
to blame. If vision was blocked maybe understandable, but still his mistake. That's why you get points on your license: to learn from it.
HRpuffnstuf
Im with you, definitely at fault. But I can see how it could happen
gusniljobv
At a crosswalk? What kind of stupid are you?
HRpuffnstuf
good lord, zero to 60. I just meant the driver probably wasn’t exactly paying attention as to why the bus was stopping. He’s still at fault
HRpuffnstuf
but I wouldn’t say it’s exactly him being dangerously reckless.
ElbowDeepInAHorse
I was gonna make a zebra joke and then my butthole bit through my jeans.
blonx
You should feed it
GalenShark
The zebra would bite though them too.
ElbowDeepInAHorse
Yeah but that's a good bite
ReplyingToTopCommentsIsHowIGetPeopleToReadMyComments
You can't make a joke while your butthole is biting through your jeans?? Pfft...amateur..
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chewybrian
Why does the driver in the left lane think the other driver stopped at the crosswalk, if not to let someone cross?
bigred810
Because some people are unaware assfucks.
SamuthNBS
It's a bus, they stop quite a lot.
AFSamizdat
Not paying attention. Buses stop to pickup people. Unfamiliar with stops. There's probably a bunch of reasons people make mistakes.
jokerlives
People think if they are in a hurry, the traffic laws become optional.
Popyachopinafan
Busy updating facebook status to : Just about to bowl over a couple of kids
Pafolo
It’s a bus so probably picking up people. You never see public busses stop?
bananahats
True, but the road signs and markings on the road itself clearly mark it as a pedestrian crossing
jojojolly
I saw the head of the state health department where I live drive through a crosswalk like that with a car full of little kids.
jojojolly
He just missed a woman who had crossed in front of me.
CanineEuphoria
Thought is usually completely absent in these scenarios
ChloeRed
Apart from one: I'm more important than anything else.
MyronTheDormouse
Because stupid
Saxytimes
Happens all the time here, people think it's just traffic in front of that lane. I would like flashing lights when people cross
PuzzledCompletely
They put one of those near me. Push button, wait a few seconds, get flashing lights to stop traffic. No one bothers to push the button.
soccerninja814
Bold of you to assume he was thinking
WatermelonT
In poland, cars almost never stop at the crosswalk, you have to wait until both sides are clear, then you can walk and cross the street.
Daeyelle
The way it should be, IMO. The lightest/nimblest of two objects intersecting should always give way
schlummi
Then cars should be banned in cities.
MexicanFrenchCanadian
It's the same here in Canada , they don't stop. Which makes me think if is the right method. Why don't put stops sings instead?
whyexactly
A stop sign at every crosswalk, requiring every car to stop as it passes, would ruin any hope of traffic flow.
MexicanFrenchCanadian
People seem to respect more stops signs in my opinion
AttilaTheHungover
He's a cunt. I hope they got his number, but he wasn't going slow.
Otteritup
It's a bus, probably thought it was stopping at a bus stop maybe?
ImTechnicallyAnEngineer
Probably thought it was stopping to pick up passengers at a bus stop
bananahats
Probs, though if they'd been paying attention they would have seen the crossing markings on the road
ImTechnicallyAnEngineer
Very true
amyhadalittlepond
In the UK it's illegal to stop within a certain distance of a crossing... UNLESS you're a service vehicle, of which buses count. Which is
amyhadalittlepond
pretty ridiculous.
antonzzzz
Most countries don’t have bus stops at a zebra crossing
infernopg
there are a few in Austria that are in very close proximity to bus stops for convenience, although usually with lights regulating traffic
SlyeFox
Or in the middle of an intersection.
ExpiredLotionUsedAnywayAndEveryway
To be fair it's a bus, could be at a bus stop.
Caspooky
It already left the bus stop. I don't think there'd be a bus stop in the middle of a crossroad, 10 meters past the previous busstop.
ChloeRed
The crossing has warning signs on both sides of the road. I'm more in the view it's "I'm more important than anything else" driving.
bigred810
Even though. That car was still speeding and that bus was obviously stopping in his lane and not on the curb.
ExpiredLotionUsedAnywayAndEveryway
More importantly, even at a cross walk, always look for cars
bananahats
True, though in this case you'd be looking in the other direction cause the driver was driving on the wrong side.
ChloeRed
Make me think of the view of "I might trust people.. but I still look both ways when crossing a one way street."
friedpicklechip
Too many people don’t know this. That car probably didn’t even see the poor kids.
Soberyn
This happens all the time up the street. There's a bar on the corner and we sit there and get drunk and watch ppl almost die. It's crazy.
Soberyn
And it's a busy 2 way street with 2 lanes going both ways. Absolute madness.
squintish
He saw the bus stopping for them though,
gusniljobv
And he/she also saw the crossing and was probably just out to get those kids.. Crazy ass people out there
AFSamizdat
Don't know what they saw, it's what we saw. One quick look at the dash is all it takes. Buses stop all the time.
bananahats
In UK they indicate when pulling into stops and then indicate when they're pulling away again.
AFSamizdat
Indeed, in Canada as well. I don't mean to excuse the driver, just indicate that it's not otherworldly to make an error, even a lethal one.
bananahats
I agree that we're only human and people do make honest mistakes, just hope this driver learns to pay attention to road signs.