Ashburton school student hit by car

[Anonymous]

I'm pretty sure the biggest danger to kids in Montgomery Country is an automotive accident. I hope he survives.

[Anonymous]

This is horrifying. I wonder if the elderly driver had vision issues and then maybe also mixed up the gas and the brake or something. Until I saw that it was an elderly person I assumed the driver was texting or something (or maybe they were anyway). Or that someone had a seizure or a heart attack and their foot jammed on the gas. Learning that it was just sheer horrible driving is really bad.

This is not an MCPS bus stop location issue. It's an issue of an incompetent elderly driver. This driver could have jumped any curb and hit any pedestrian on any street anywhere. It's not like the stop was out on Rockville Pike. Unless we are going to make kids wait 250 feet away from the stop in the middle of a field somewhere, or install bollards along every roadway in the county, there is always going to be the potential for a horrible accident of some kind. This sounds like the kind of driver you might see on the news another day who gets the pedals confused and drives through a storefront.

Let's hope this is an impetus for making elderly drivers take steps each year to prove their fitness for continued driving. Reaction times, vision, cognitive performance, etc. Heck, all drivers. We are so lax in this country in qualifying people to operate these lethal machines with minimal training and standards compared to other countries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is horrifying. I wonder if the elderly driver had vision issues and then maybe also mixed up the gas and the brake or something. Until I saw that it was an elderly person I assumed the driver was texting or something (or maybe they were anyway). Or that someone had a seizure or a heart attack and their foot jammed on the gas. Learning that it was just sheer horrible driving is really bad.

This is not an MCPS bus stop location issue. It's an issue of an incompetent elderly driver. This driver could have jumped any curb and hit any pedestrian on any street anywhere. It's not like the stop was out on Rockville Pike. Unless we are going to make kids wait 250 feet away from the stop in the middle of a field somewhere, or install bollards along every roadway in the county, there is always going to be the potential for a horrible accident of some kind. This sounds like the kind of driver you might see on the news another day who gets the pedals confused and drives through a storefront.

Let's hope this is an impetus for making elderly drivers take steps each year to prove their fitness for continued driving. Reaction times, vision, cognitive performance, etc. Heck, all drivers. We are so lax in this country in qualifying people to operate these lethal machines with minimal training and standards compared to other countries.

If it hadn’t been a dangerous bus stop there would have been no one to hit!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is horrifying. I wonder if the elderly driver had vision issues and then maybe also mixed up the gas and the brake or something. Until I saw that it was an elderly person I assumed the driver was texting or something (or maybe they were anyway). Or that someone had a seizure or a heart attack and their foot jammed on the gas. Learning that it was just sheer horrible driving is really bad.

This is not an MCPS bus stop location issue. It's an issue of an incompetent elderly driver. This driver could have jumped any curb and hit any pedestrian on any street anywhere. It's not like the stop was out on Rockville Pike. Unless we are going to make kids wait 250 feet away from the stop in the middle of a field somewhere, or install bollards along every roadway in the county, there is always going to be the potential for a horrible accident of some kind. This sounds like the kind of driver you might see on the news another day who gets the pedals confused and drives through a storefront.

Let's hope this is an impetus for making elderly drivers take steps each year to prove their fitness for continued driving. Reaction times, vision, cognitive performance, etc. Heck, all drivers. We are so lax in this country in qualifying people to operate these lethal machines with minimal training and standards compared to other countries.

If it hadn’t been a dangerous bus stop there would have been no one to hit!

With this kind of thinking we will all be wrapping our kids in bubble wrap. Nothing is ever going to be perfectly safe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is horrifying. I wonder if the elderly driver had vision issues and then maybe also mixed up the gas and the brake or something. Until I saw that it was an elderly person I assumed the driver was texting or something (or maybe they were anyway). Or that someone had a seizure or a heart attack and their foot jammed on the gas. Learning that it was just sheer horrible driving is really bad.

This is not an MCPS bus stop location issue. It's an issue of an incompetent elderly driver. This driver could have jumped any curb and hit any pedestrian on any street anywhere. It's not like the stop was out on Rockville Pike. Unless we are going to make kids wait 250 feet away from the stop in the middle of a field somewhere, or install bollards along every roadway in the county, there is always going to be the potential for a horrible accident of some kind. This sounds like the kind of driver you might see on the news another day who gets the pedals confused and drives through a storefront.

Let's hope this is an impetus for making elderly drivers take steps each year to prove their fitness for continued driving. Reaction times, vision, cognitive performance, etc. Heck, all drivers. We are so lax in this country in qualifying people to operate these lethal machines with minimal training and standards compared to other countries.

If it hadn’t been a dangerous bus stop there would have been no one to hit!

This accident has nothing to do with the bus stop. It’s all about a driver who had no right being on the road.
Something needs to be done about elderly drivers

[Anonymous]

Prayers to this child’s family. Evening news reported that the child died.

Safety improvements for all students, those who walk and those who ride the bus are always a worthwhile discussion. In this situation, the car jumped the curb so other than looking at speed and driver error, it appears to have been a horrendous accident due to driver error. Perhaps Montgomery County should consider lowering the speed limit for that area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Prayers to this child’s family. Evening news reported that the child died.

Safety improvements for all students, those who walk and those who ride the bus are always a worthwhile discussion. In this situation, the car jumped the curb so other than looking at speed and driver error, it appears to have been a horrendous accident due to driver error. Perhaps Montgomery County should consider lowering the speed limit for that area.

The speed limit on Grosvenor Lane is 30 and there are speed cameras enforcing it less than a mile from the bus stop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Prayers to this child’s family. Evening news reported that the child died.

Safety improvements for all students, those who walk and those who ride the bus are always a worthwhile discussion. In this situation, the car jumped the curb so other than looking at speed and driver error, it appears to have been a horrendous accident due to driver error. Perhaps Montgomery County should consider lowering the speed limit for that area.

The speed limit on Grosvenor Lane is 30 and there are speed cameras enforcing it less than a mile from the bus stop.

Yes, again, it is an incompetent driver issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is horrifying. I wonder if the elderly driver had vision issues and then maybe also mixed up the gas and the brake or something. Until I saw that it was an elderly person I assumed the driver was texting or something (or maybe they were anyway). Or that someone had a seizure or a heart attack and their foot jammed on the gas. Learning that it was just sheer horrible driving is really bad.

This is not an MCPS bus stop location issue. It's an issue of an incompetent elderly driver. This driver could have jumped any curb and hit any pedestrian on any street anywhere. It's not like the stop was out on Rockville Pike. Unless we are going to make kids wait 250 feet away from the stop in the middle of a field somewhere, or install bollards along every roadway in the county, there is always going to be the potential for a horrible accident of some kind. This sounds like the kind of driver you might see on the news another day who gets the pedals confused and drives through a storefront.

Let's hope this is an impetus for making elderly drivers take steps each year to prove their fitness for continued driving. Reaction times, vision, cognitive performance, etc. Heck, all drivers. We are so lax in this country in qualifying people to operate these lethal machines with minimal training and standards compared to other countries.

If it hadn’t been a dangerous bus stop there would have been no one to hit!

This accident has nothing to do with the bus stop. It’s all about a driver who had no right being on the road.
Something needs to be done about elderly drivers

It had everything to do with a bus stop at a cross street on a main road. BOE has blood on their hands.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm pretty sure the biggest danger to kids in Montgomery Country is an automotive accident. I hope he survives.

It’s not just Montgomery county, it’s everywhere.

https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/001915.htm

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is horrifying. I wonder if the elderly driver had vision issues and then maybe also mixed up the gas and the brake or something. Until I saw that it was an elderly person I assumed the driver was texting or something (or maybe they were anyway). Or that someone had a seizure or a heart attack and their foot jammed on the gas. Learning that it was just sheer horrible driving is really bad.

This is not an MCPS bus stop location issue. It's an issue of an incompetent elderly driver. This driver could have jumped any curb and hit any pedestrian on any street anywhere. It's not like the stop was out on Rockville Pike. Unless we are going to make kids wait 250 feet away from the stop in the middle of a field somewhere, or install bollards along every roadway in the county, there is always going to be the potential for a horrible accident of some kind. This sounds like the kind of driver you might see on the news another day who gets the pedals confused and drives through a storefront.

Let's hope this is an impetus for making elderly drivers take steps each year to prove their fitness for continued driving. Reaction times, vision, cognitive performance, etc. Heck, all drivers. We are so lax in this country in qualifying people to operate these lethal machines with minimal training and standards compared to other countries.

If it hadn’t been a dangerous bus stop there would have been no one to hit!

This accident has nothing to do with the bus stop. It’s all about a driver who had no right being on the road.
Something needs to be done about elderly drivers

It had everything to do with a bus stop at a cross street on a main road. BOE has blood on their hands.

No they don’t, the real issue is the state or county should have rules in place to determine the competence of older drivers. Maybe more of a health screening requirement after a certain age.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is horrifying. I wonder if the elderly driver had vision issues and then maybe also mixed up the gas and the brake or something. Until I saw that it was an elderly person I assumed the driver was texting or something (or maybe they were anyway). Or that someone had a seizure or a heart attack and their foot jammed on the gas. Learning that it was just sheer horrible driving is really bad.

This is not an MCPS bus stop location issue. It's an issue of an incompetent elderly driver. This driver could have jumped any curb and hit any pedestrian on any street anywhere. It's not like the stop was out on Rockville Pike. Unless we are going to make kids wait 250 feet away from the stop in the middle of a field somewhere, or install bollards along every roadway in the county, there is always going to be the potential for a horrible accident of some kind. This sounds like the kind of driver you might see on the news another day who gets the pedals confused and drives through a storefront.

Let's hope this is an impetus for making elderly drivers take steps each year to prove their fitness for continued driving. Reaction times, vision, cognitive performance, etc. Heck, all drivers. We are so lax in this country in qualifying people to operate these lethal machines with minimal training and standards compared to other countries.

If it hadn’t been a dangerous bus stop there would have been no one to hit!

This accident has nothing to do with the bus stop. It’s all about a driver who had no right being on the road.
Something needs to be done about elderly drivers

It had everything to do with a bus stop at a cross street on a main road. BOE has blood on their hands.

Nope. The elderly driver was driving like a drunk driver and shouldn’t have keys for a motor vehicle. Same thing happened a month or two ago where the elderly driver killed a couple of patrons at a restaurant on Connecticut Ave.

[Anonymous]

This wasn't even a month ago:

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/deadly-dc-crash-restaurant-outdoor-seating-parthenon-connecticut-avenue/2996789/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is horrifying. I wonder if the elderly driver had vision issues and then maybe also mixed up the gas and the brake or something. Until I saw that it was an elderly person I assumed the driver was texting or something (or maybe they were anyway). Or that someone had a seizure or a heart attack and their foot jammed on the gas. Learning that it was just sheer horrible driving is really bad.

This is not an MCPS bus stop location issue. It's an issue of an incompetent elderly driver. This driver could have jumped any curb and hit any pedestrian on any street anywhere. It's not like the stop was out on Rockville Pike. Unless we are going to make kids wait 250 feet away from the stop in the middle of a field somewhere, or install bollards along every roadway in the county, there is always going to be the potential for a horrible accident of some kind. This sounds like the kind of driver you might see on the news another day who gets the pedals confused and drives through a storefront.

Let's hope this is an impetus for making elderly drivers take steps each year to prove their fitness for continued driving. Reaction times, vision, cognitive performance, etc. Heck, all drivers. We are so lax in this country in qualifying people to operate these lethal machines with minimal training and standards compared to other countries.

If it hadn’t been a dangerous bus stop there would have been no one to hit!

This accident has nothing to do with the bus stop. It’s all about a driver who had no right being on the road.
Something needs to be done about elderly drivers

It had everything to do with a bus stop at a cross street on a main road. BOE has blood on their hands.

No they don’t, the real issue is the state or county should have rules in place to determine the competence of older drivers. Maybe more of a health screening requirement after a certain age.

I don't see it happening, but I wish it would. Old people need to get medicine, food, doctors etc, right? How will they get them? As long as they vote in republicans, who need to appease their base, it won't happen. They should, at a minimum, require an eye test once you reach a certain age.

[Anonymous]

More Jersey barriers!