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Re: Close Call
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Fig
Excellent bit of driving by the ambo dude.
Can't really put any blame on the kid. You've got the sense to use a zebra (commendable, you are obviously in the top 95% of London kids where intelligence is concerned) and a bus pulls up before it. You assume the bus is letting you cross. You can possibly hear sirens. You live in London. You can possibly hear five or six sirens nearby. You have possibly mentally 'tuned-out' the noise of sirens, you live in London. Even if you can hear sirens, you can't see anything, there's a double-decker blocking the view, oh and the noise.
That kid is an entire lesson in what we (ATC) call 'Human Factors' in himself and I've just touched on a few points).
The bus driver. I wonder. Could he have pulled up ACROSS the zebra and still allowed room for the ambo between himself and the island? Might have been a smart move. Else he could have pulled over just after the crossing without undue delay to the ambo, there appears to be plenty of space. Maybe the kid had stepped out on 'his' zebra, assuming the bus WILL stop for him.
Very easy to be wise after the fact of course and we can not really have the full picture without a full investigation. That would only have happened had an incident occurred. Which, of course, it didn't. Because of: EXCELLENT DRIVING BY THE AMBO DUDE.
Thanks for the vid Tom. Would like to see more of those. I can donate bandwidth if it will help.
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