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Re: BREAKING: SCHOOL BUS CRASH IN MT. OLIVE |
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Posted by checkmatechamp13 on Fri May 25 20:16:30 2018, in response to Re: BREAKING: SCHOOL BUS CRASH IN MT. OLIVE, posted by MainR3664 on Fri May 25 07:06:46 2018. I will say this (as somebody who works in highway construction) Those "Authorized Vehicles Only" signs are pretty much there to prevent overuse of those types of locations. A single vehicle using it is no more safe or unsafe whether it's marked with some type of official plate or not (those plates/amber lights don't change the laws of physics).When you're exiting the construction site/work zone, and trying to accelerate into the left lane of general traffic in a 50 mph zone without any assistance from a flagger slowing down the traffic for you, that's scary regardless of whether or not you're in an official vehicle. (That's why the speed limits in work zones are usually lowered, even when there's a concrete barrier separating it from the traffic), because in the event some vehicle needs to leave the zone, it's safer for them to do so when the surrounding traffic is at a lower speed. Basically, if a police officer needed to make that U-turn for whatever reason, he's just as much at risk as the school bus if he doesn't do it properly/carefully. So obviously he's at fault and shouldn't have been using it in the first place, but at the very least, if he did decide to use it instead of doing the proper thing and just backtracking, he should've done it with extreme caution and patience. |
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