dodge freak
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This was over in the Uk press, some school bus driver hit the gas pedal and not the brake thinking it was the brake pedal........
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-hand-hitting-accelerator-instead-brake.html
A school bus driver who crushed a six-year-old boy to death when his vehicle sped out of control was jailed for 28 months today.
Adrian Shearing pressed the accelerator instead of the brakes on the 67-seat DAF coach as Nicola Connor dropped off her son, Finlay, at school.
They both became trapped between the bus and a Fiat Punto outside the gates of Woodborough School in Pewsey, Wiltshire, when the tragic accident happened.
A visibly shaken Shearing was heard to say after the death that the brakes had failed on the coach.
But the court heard it had no defects and that Shearing had suffered sudden acceleration syndrome, a common cause of similar accidents involving automatic buses where the driver becomes confused when he presses the accelerator by mistake and not the brake and cannot understand why the vehicle will not stop.
In mitigation, the court heard Shearing was an ordinary hard-working family man with no previous convictions. He accepted the coach was out of control, and gave his heartfelt sympathy to the family.
'It was his error that caused the accident. He panicked and slammed his foot down on the accelerator,' his barrister Michael Hall said.................
I never heard of it, just when the cars themselves mess up. Then again I always use both feet to drive, right gas--left brake.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-hand-hitting-accelerator-instead-brake.html
A school bus driver who crushed a six-year-old boy to death when his vehicle sped out of control was jailed for 28 months today.
Adrian Shearing pressed the accelerator instead of the brakes on the 67-seat DAF coach as Nicola Connor dropped off her son, Finlay, at school.
They both became trapped between the bus and a Fiat Punto outside the gates of Woodborough School in Pewsey, Wiltshire, when the tragic accident happened.
A visibly shaken Shearing was heard to say after the death that the brakes had failed on the coach.
But the court heard it had no defects and that Shearing had suffered sudden acceleration syndrome, a common cause of similar accidents involving automatic buses where the driver becomes confused when he presses the accelerator by mistake and not the brake and cannot understand why the vehicle will not stop.
In mitigation, the court heard Shearing was an ordinary hard-working family man with no previous convictions. He accepted the coach was out of control, and gave his heartfelt sympathy to the family.
'It was his error that caused the accident. He panicked and slammed his foot down on the accelerator,' his barrister Michael Hall said.................
I never heard of it, just when the cars themselves mess up. Then again I always use both feet to drive, right gas--left brake.
