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It was bound to happen ...
This morning as I turned onto H Street I noticed a BCSD school bus and small green vehicle pulled to the side being loaded onto tow trucks. Having seen this bus speed down my street on a daily basis I figured the driver must have turned onto H and was T-boned by the green car. The underbelly of the bus was hanging and the green car had a pretty smooshed front end. My suspicions were just confirmed when I read this article at Bakersfield.com: School bus driver likely at fault for minor accident| Wednesday, Dec 19 2007 11:43 AMLast Updated: Wednesday, Dec 19 2007 11:43 AM A Bakersfield City School District bus was involved in a minor accident Wednesday morning. No children were on board when the accident happened about 7:55 a.m., the Bakersfield Police reported. The bus driver, Cathy McGough was at a stop sign at Forrest and H streets, going eastbound on Forrest, when she turned left in front of a Nissan Sentra traveling southbound on H Street. Neither McGough nor Eduardo Rocha, the Sentra driver, suffered injuries, said Bakersfield Police Sgt. Greg Terry. Terry said it appears McGough was at fault for failing to yield to Rocha at the stop sign. ................................ Go figure, obviously this bus driver is in way too much of a hurry every AM when she speeds by my house - why would she carefully look to her right and left when turning onto H Street? I mean, we should all just ignore that blind spot and carry on! Fortunately no one was injured ... maybe on top of all my complaint phone calls to the Transportation Director and now this accident this driver will be removed from this route. Next time it could be a child or family animal that runs in front of the bus for the driver to plow down. An afterthought ... I could be jumping to conclusions ... maybe this driver was a substitute and not the normal driver for the route, so she didn't know to be cautious of the major blind spot when you turn from Forrest onto H. I will add that in, just to be fair. But whoever does regularly drive that morning and afternoon route down my street does need to SLOW DOWN! 4 comments from 4 users
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posted by
gbriano
on Dec 20, 2007 at 09:20 PM
I used to live on that street several houses away from that corner not too long ago and I know that exact bus! Why it seemed always in a hurry I never got. Everyone knows in the morning you kind of have to be patient at that corner. I ride a motorcycle so I never tried beating the traffic like some of the other drivers there.
posted by
Kindra79
on Dec 20, 2007 at 09:06 AM
Oh no, it was a full sized bus! Even scarier! posted by
JulieJordanScott
on Dec 20, 2007 at 06:58 AM
fabulous. did you say this was one of the smaller busses, as in Special Ed busses? Another reason to have such a deep, profound trust for BCSD. Ugh.
posted by
twinkie
on Dec 19, 2007 at 10:36 PM
those bus drivers are freaken scary CRAZY! Not just the one that drives through your block. I wonder if they get paid by comission or something instead of by the hour? LOL
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