Thread: dash cam, School Bus illegal maneuver

That's Unbelievable!!!! Those school bus drivers should immediately be sacked, if I was the parent of one of the children on those buses I would demand immediate answers!!!!

As for the rest of those drivers, it's hard to believe such morons continue to live!!!

Hallam! What else did you expect?
Par for the course around the Dandenong South area.

Well, the anarchist in me says why not. If the boom gates are inoperable, and have been that way for ages, and you stop and have a careful look, then it's no worse than my local (uncontrolled) railway crossing.

All we've got is a stop sign, so we stop, take a look up and down the tracks, and go if it is clear. It's not rocket science.

I hope the cops can get the rego numbers from your video.

Not long after I started as a signaller on the railway I was assigned to the signal box at the railway crossing on Parramatta Rd. at Auburn in Sydney.

I'd first put on the bells and lights but never dropped the gates and gave the signal to a train until the traffic had stopped. You'd be surprised at how many drivers stopped on the tracks as soon as they heard the bells and I'd have to go out and tell them to move.

But from your video, you wouldn't be surprised at how many drivers did just what you saw.

Originally Posted by spudboy

Well, the anarchist in me says why not. If the boom gates are inoperable, and have been that way for ages, and you stop and have a careful look, then it's no worse than my local (uncontrolled) railway crossing.

All we've got is a stop sign, so we stop, take a look up and down the tracks, and go if it is clear. It's not rocket science.

Im a closet anarchist too but thats flawed logic, would you go through a red light if there were no cars coming ??

Almost the only thing I am not permitted to do as the driver of an emergency vehicle is to proceed through a level crossing when the warning signals are operating. I know that crossing at Hallam road very well, for one thing it has 2 tracks which is different to a typical uncontrolled level crossing in a rural area, also the visibility either way is not good.
There was a school bus driver filmed talking on his phone a couple of years ago, resulted in him being sacked. Same should apply to the driver in this video.

You blokes have it all wrong. All those people had an emergency. including the school bus. Why else would the not want to wait 5 minutes for the signals to change?






What was that VIC road safety message years ago..............."better to be 5 minutes late than dead on time".

More seriously, I have no dramas with people practicing Darwinism but not when they involve others....like school kids and train drivers.

... because when you're sitting there for FIVE WHOLE MINUTES, it seems like an eternity... add another and maybe a third rail crossing to your route, throw in a couple of "idiotic" traffic-light sets to eat up an excess "only" a minute or three... EACH....and I'm not surprised that so many folk treat a red light with contempt.