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"A 2003 accident in which a Detroit man riding his bike home from work was run down by a DDOT bus driven by Melvia Owens on Gratiot and permanently disabled. In her four years with the city, the bus driver had been involved in 30 crashes or claims, and in another 18 accidents in which no ticket was issued, according to court records. The woman still works as a bus driver, although the state suspended her license for nine months in 2004. The city paid the bicyclist $1.4 million."

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http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070611/METRO/706110341
 
Quote from max401:

The police came to the accident scene and you didn't point out the missing stop sign? And you had witnesses in your car also? How does this work?
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Yes I did point out the missing stop sign. They didn't care. More or
less said it was my problem. Which it ended up being.

I couldn't convince the judge either. Bunch of buttheads...

The city, county or state didn't want to take any responsibility in this case.
 
Quote from Stevie_G_5:

Ya why wasn't there a witness in your car?
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Yes, there was three. Judge didn't believe any of us...

He thought we made it up. "Stop signs just don't fall down around here"...
 
Quote from nutmeg:

Paris needs a good union rep
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Exactly. In our state, up until a few months ago... they had school
bus drivers driving around on suspended driving licenses, perverts
who had just gotten out of jail, and others who never had a decent
background check driving our kids around to school.

They finally put in mandatory background checks done by the
state themselves. Till now, they let the bus drivers send in their own
documents which they could forge and fake.

The one guy who was driving around on a suspended license had
his back after waiting 6 months. He is now a bus driver again.

I have a distinct feeling that it is hard to find school bus drivers...

Either that or we need new lawmakers in our state.
 
Quote from version77:

Yes, there was three. Judge didn't believe any of us...

He thought we made it up. "Stop signs just don't fall down around here"...
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What did they mean by this? That there was no stop sign there in the first place?
 
Quote from max401:

What did they mean by this? That there was no stop sign there in the first place?
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There was suppposed to be 4 stops signs. It was a four way stop.

Someone (I think it was the guys in the car in the middle of the street)
had just knocked it down so you couldn't see it when you came
down the road approaching the intersection.

The reason I think it was the guys whose car I hit was because
they were all laughing at the time thinking it was funny.

I sure didn't think it was funny at the time.
 
Quote from version77:

There was suppposed to be 4 stops signs. It was a four way stop.

Someone (I think it was the guys in the car in the middle of the street)
had just knocked it down so you couldn't see it when you came
down the road approaching the intersection.

The reason I think it was the guys whose car I hit was because
they were all laughing at the time thinking it was funny.

I sure didn't think it was funny at the time.
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The other three stop signs are up, it's obviously a four way stop, how do you get nailed for breaking the law? You can't be guilty of running a non-existent traffic sign. At the very least, the other driver's has contributory negligence thrown at him for pulling out from a stop sign in front of a moving vehicle which obviously had no intention of stopping. The stop sign requirement is not to simply stop and then pull out, it is to stop and then only proceed when safe to do so.
 
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