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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of the excuses and rationalizing here are shocking. Basically people are saying that they can't be expected to stop for or see a bus because they are inattentive, distracted, the sun is in their eyes, they didn't know the rules, etc. Really?

Guess what? The moments you are inattentive, distracted, or can't see, are exactly the moments where you hit something or someone. Which is why these laws exist and which is why the privilege of having a driver's license assumes that you will be paying attention and able to see where you're going and what's around you, and that you know the rules of the road. Now, we all know reality is different and no one's perfect. But that's why when you fall down, you pay the ticket. Not continue to make a litany of excuses which just sound like case studies for bad driving.

The post with the excuse about the sun being in your eyes and not seeing the bus on Rockville Pike is beyond ridiculous. If you can't see where you're going and what's around you, why the heck are you continuing to press the accelerator? You didn't see the bus, what else might you not have seen? I've had plenty of moments of bad driving myself, but when it happens, I'm embarrassed and try to acknowledge that it's no one's fault but my own and that if something bad had happened, a litany of excuses and apologies would not have undone that thing or gotten me out of the consequences. Come on. If you're confused about the rules with a stopped bus, why wouldn't you just play it safe and stop? [/quote]

Sure. Let's see what you think when you get one. Because if you drive during bus stopping time, especially if you use unfamiliar roads, I guarantee you'll get a ticket one day.

I follow the rules of the road, I don't look at my phone, I don't talk to passengers, etc. And yet one day I got a ticket for passing a school bus, because I thought there was a median on a multi-lane road and it so happens that the area where the bus had stopped had no median (and then further along the road, the median started back up again).

My mistake, of course. But a VERY easy mistake to make. Don't come at me with your judgment. I paid, but I think there are many people like me, good drivers, who get caught in what is essentially a nice little money-making operation for municipalities.

*AND MY KIDS TOOK THE BUS TO SCHOOL*. I still think some school bus rules are completely over the top.

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Are you saying the rules are rigged so the govt can make money off of good drivers just caught in a trap camouflaged to look like a school bus with flashing lights and a stop sign? A large bright orange bus? Traveling, as you say, during bus stopping time? 
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