This is a systems failure, where multiple layers did not protect a passenger from harm. If the cause was a failure to do a mirror check, then that should not be enough to cause something like this to happen. Systems should be reliant any one thing to prevent failure.
RaichuGirl on
Wow. Surely this was malicious on the bus driver’s part because I don’t see how this could happen by accident. Surely he could see the boy in his mirror? Hope the boy wasn’t injured too badly.
Edit: looked further into this and thankfully he wasn’t injured, but obviously it was a stressful for him. Poor kid.
nilsoma on
Can the mother file a police report?
misterdarky on
Incident aside, given how difficult the TAC can be to deal with in healthcare, it’s amazing how a bit of social media -> media traction gets the wheels moving.
Screambloodyleprosy on
I don’t really understand these types of stories. You can’t file a “Police report” for any little thing. I don’t think this meets the criteria for TIS even though falling over in a bus as the bus takes off is covered.
It sounds like the driver failed to do a regualr mirror check and meet the requirements of his licence and duty of care as a bus driver.
At most a licence review can be submitted, but given this is all over the news, he won’t get employment as a bus driver.
ProfessionPrize4298 on
I wonder if they will release how long the door was open for before being shut on the boy.
APuticulahInduhvidul on
Fuck this whole story. It’s an accident and it happened months ago. You’re only hearing about it now because media ghouls got their hands on some footage and the mother is doing the interview circuit talking about HER trauma. Fuck anyone who can’t connect the dots.
Sloppykrab on
How did the kid get into this predicament? The article doesn’t talk about it.
UnknownOrigiinz on
I remember when I was about 13, I boarded a bus that was way overpacked. Bus driver closed the door behind me but I couldn’t stand behind the yellow line on the floor so he opened the door again. But in the process, the door folded and my arm got pinned between the folded door and the Perspex sheet in front of the front row seat. It was absolute agony and while I’m screaming at him to open the door, this 60 year old man is just telling me to get behind the yellow line and he will close the door. My arm is pinned to the door and it took about half the bus screaming at him while I’m trying not to yell in pain for him to finally close the door. I had to get off like two stops later because I was starting to feel nauseous from the pain, and it was right around this time I started dealing with elbow issues during tennis matches (though might not be related).
I’ve had plenty of experiences with good bus drivers, but far out the ones that are bad are like, REALLY bad
10 Comments
Driver sacked over this gross negligence
This is a systems failure, where multiple layers did not protect a passenger from harm. If the cause was a failure to do a mirror check, then that should not be enough to cause something like this to happen. Systems should be reliant any one thing to prevent failure.
Wow. Surely this was malicious on the bus driver’s part because I don’t see how this could happen by accident. Surely he could see the boy in his mirror? Hope the boy wasn’t injured too badly.
Edit: looked further into this and thankfully he wasn’t injured, but obviously it was a stressful for him. Poor kid.
Can the mother file a police report?
Incident aside, given how difficult the TAC can be to deal with in healthcare, it’s amazing how a bit of social media -> media traction gets the wheels moving.
I don’t really understand these types of stories. You can’t file a “Police report” for any little thing. I don’t think this meets the criteria for TIS even though falling over in a bus as the bus takes off is covered.
It sounds like the driver failed to do a regualr mirror check and meet the requirements of his licence and duty of care as a bus driver.
At most a licence review can be submitted, but given this is all over the news, he won’t get employment as a bus driver.
I wonder if they will release how long the door was open for before being shut on the boy.
Fuck this whole story. It’s an accident and it happened months ago. You’re only hearing about it now because media ghouls got their hands on some footage and the mother is doing the interview circuit talking about HER trauma. Fuck anyone who can’t connect the dots.
How did the kid get into this predicament? The article doesn’t talk about it.
I remember when I was about 13, I boarded a bus that was way overpacked. Bus driver closed the door behind me but I couldn’t stand behind the yellow line on the floor so he opened the door again. But in the process, the door folded and my arm got pinned between the folded door and the Perspex sheet in front of the front row seat. It was absolute agony and while I’m screaming at him to open the door, this 60 year old man is just telling me to get behind the yellow line and he will close the door. My arm is pinned to the door and it took about half the bus screaming at him while I’m trying not to yell in pain for him to finally close the door. I had to get off like two stops later because I was starting to feel nauseous from the pain, and it was right around this time I started dealing with elbow issues during tennis matches (though might not be related).
I’ve had plenty of experiences with good bus drivers, but far out the ones that are bad are like, REALLY bad