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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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. [/quote]

If it hadn’t been a dangerous bus stop there would have been no one to hit!  
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Where is a "safe bus stop"?  This could've happened on a quiet road, too.  The driver was not speeding. The driver lost control of the car.  If that happens on a quiet road, even a cul de sac where kids are waiting on the curb, they would get hit.

For goodness sake. You trying to find blame on anyone else but the driver is not helping.   It's like you want to blame BOE for anything and everything, like if a tree fell on a kid waiting at the bus stop because the BOE should've known that a tree could fall and hurt a child.  BOE fault, right? Give it a rest.

My heart aches for the family.[/quote]

100%. Enough with blaming MCPS for this.[/quote]

BOE doesn’t set bus stops. MCPS has a DOT.[/quote]

BOE is in charge. DOT works for BOE. You know, the guy who was busy embezzling $600k instead of evaluating dangerous bus stops. That guy. He works for the BOE. Too busy stealing to do his job.[/quote]
BOE doesn't get paid enough to micromanage.[/quote]

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