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 Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 10:14 pm
Over Christmas break, 3 students I think from Deer Valley HS were in a accident in Ohio while heading from their Annual Ski-Trip. The bus hit black ice and rolled off the road.
Its really scary to think...people you know could slip away with out even a thought at all.
So discuss, your thoughts on this happening and people dying that are close to you...
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Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 10:22 am
From what I hear the driver was 71.... this to me is a fault of the company that lets elder citizens drive mass transit or bus driving... now I'm not advocating that all senior citizens should be banned from driving which i believe this should be a case by case basis, but someone of that age should not be let driving a bus filled with passengers...
*fact* Commercial arlines (Southwest, USAirways, ect..) force their pilots to retire from flying at the age of 60 to avoid any sort of compliction where an elder pilot might be forced to make a quick decision... something of this nature should be implemented for mass transit on the ground as well...
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Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 10:37 am
The people at my school were quite depressed because some of them knew some of the kids that died... I didn't really, but it was still a tragic event...
I have a problem with the whole set up for renewing your license in Arizona. When we moved here from Dallas my mom didn't even have to take an eye test - they just gave her a new license. I'm not sure what they do in other places, but that seemed kind of odd to me. Another thing was the fact that she doesn't have to get her license renewed again until she is in her 60s.
Where I live there are a LOT of elderly drivers and it's not that I want them all off the road, but when you start to get that old your senses most likely start to go, and I feel very unsafe knowing that my great grandmother, who just turned ninety and can hardly move or hear or see, could if she so desired still get on the road since her drivers license is still valid...
To me that's just not right...
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 4:29 pm
Well yes i kinda agree with not letting elder citizens drive vehicles full of people. But Black Ice is unavoidable. You either miss it or you dont. It's called black ice because it blends in with the road. So even if it was a man in his idk early thirties. I stil believe this accident would have happend.
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 10:45 am
They say it wasn't black ice that tipped the bus, the driver was going too fast to negotiate the turn
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 10:41 am
I have lost a friend in a similar matter but what made the accident different from these students was that my friend and her friends were out joy ridding. She lost her life after supposidly being ejected from the car and her boyfriend who bled to death. Two escpaed with just scratches (both happened to be brothers) and another girl ended up in the hospital with a coma for months. It was sad that I had lost my friend because she was very kind to me compared to other girls but also we were working on a project that she was in on that was her idea in the first place. I ended up working on it bymyself even though I had a partner to help.
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Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:48 am
my brother almost died in an accident a few years ago it was pretty scary.
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