How on earth does this happen?

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Originally Posted by cuppabillytea

Shutting the gate loudly, after the horse has bolted. There are now calls for defibrillators in all NSW Public Schools.

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Whilst having defibrillators in public spaces is a good thing, defibrillation is a totally irrelevant therapy in this context.

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Originally Posted by V8Ian

This incident occurred in a school car park, an area that a prudent and competent driver would be maneuvering at 5-10 kph. Anyone with a modicum of competence, distracted or otherwise, would have noticed the speed increase that must have occurred to cause the damage that it did. I would imagine that to smash through the building and end up with the entire car within the class room, it was a high speed impact under heavy acceleration. Gross incompetence in my book.

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Or a medical incident,but then again, nothing like that was reported.

One of my brothers fainted in a car park many years ago,luckily, someone came over and turned off the ignition,as the car was reving very high.The poor D1 V8 was valve bouncing......,luckily not in gear.

news said the distraction was water bottle that she had dropped

The words "Absolute Moron" come to mind here [bigwhistle]

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Originally Posted by V8Ian

Driver charged after two eight-year-old boys killed in Sydney classroom crash

Distraction has been attributed as the cause, but gross incompetence is more likely. How can anybody be so distracted that they are unaware that their speed has increased to such a velocity that they could smash through a building, whilst driving in a school car park?

RIP little blokes and condolences to the families and friends.

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Not shy to say that tears welled up in my eyes as this story unfolded in the media. Just tragic. Thought of my own lad, 9yo, in a similar demountable classroom in another school in another part of Sydney - hope he never faces such a thing.

Regards being unaware of speed increase: Is it so? Was she unaware? Haven't seen that in the reports so far. Did see mention of a dropped flask perhaps distracting.

Am wondering if the result of the distraction was a panicked stamp on the brakes but unfortunately the inept driver got the wrong pedal. Wondering...
(A colleague was in an underground car park on a ramp down to the next basement level and she had a horrific crash. Turned out she had gone for the brake, got the throttle instead, shocked/paralysed because her her speed was soaring despite pressing harder and harder on the "brakes".)

Seriously people if someone cannot even control a vehicle in a car park then they have No business driving on the road at all.
This idiot shold do some serious jail time for this episode But unfortunatly i doubt that will happen.

The driver has been charged with multiple serious offences, I think she will be going to prison no matter what the circumstances.

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Originally Posted by Homestar

The driver has been charged with multiple serious offences, I think she will be going to prison no matter what the circumstances.

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2 lives have already ended. do we need to ruin another?

Bloody kangaroo courts or what ever they are called.......

Accidents can happen and unfortunately death can be a result......while there is humans involved it always possible.

I highly doubt she woke up in the morning and decided to kill two kids.....as I’m assuming she was dropping a child off at the school.

I prefer to wait until the judge makes a call......

The question I always ask myself is how competent were the drivers in the first place.. I see to many drivers who can't read the traffic conditions or get confused in general congestion or can't park/guage distance/ or have sufficient spacial abilities.
It's too easy to get a licence and then there is no retesting. How many drivers know all the road rules, I know I was supprised after reviewing them after 20 years of driving.

I hope the government will enforce compulsory retesting to keep our roads safer. This may have kept this driver from having a licence if they were not competent of course if this were the case.

Driving is a privilege not necessarily a right. But we all have the right to only have competent drivers on our roads. I'm not judging though and maybe I'm wrong to think what I do.

I'm sure the family and friends would agree to safer drivers in the vacinity of their children.