Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: Sometimes accidents happen and it's no one's fault. It's just a combination of bad timings and back luck. It almost sounds as though the little boy lost contol of his bike and couldn't help colliding with the bus. He was out of the bus driver's view and unfortunately got run over. It's all so tragic and--in this case--it's difficult to place blame on anyone.
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 <<<Can't we accept that "accidents" do sometimes happen without casting blame. It's not a perfect world, you strive to do your best and things go wrong anyway. Wait till all the facts are in before blaming a child or company.>> I agree with you 100%, but the cause of the accident needs to be found so that hopefully it can be prevented in the future.
Originally Posted By plpeters70 Sad news. You know, I was riding on those buses early last month thinking to myself, "this whole system is an accident waiting to happen". They pack those things with people, and then drive all over the place, at pretty fast speeds. Plus, there was heavy traffic everywhere - Disney's roadways are packed. It's such a mess, and should never have been allowed to reach this point. Disney should have built-out the resort with an actual plan that included mass transist systems, like the monorail. Instead, they took the cheapest route and went with buses. Now they have traffic problems and urban sprawl - what a magical world...
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 Tragic. And one would be correct to not jump to conclusions just yet. BUT ... that said, anything other than the kid darting into the path of the bus at last minute would likely place some/most/all the culpability on Disney here. And again, kids do sometimes do dumb things, often with tragic consequences. BUT ... again, anyone familiar with WDW transport knows there are issues with the driving skills of numerous drivers. That gets pinned on TDO all the way regardless of what happened here. I didn't see any skid marks on the road, which may/may not mean anything. One thing that left a bad taste in my mouth was the FHP holding its press conference in the median of what appeared to be the entrance near the Marriott World Center. As opposed to SW, which when it had the recent tragedy with the whale trainer. The child died on Disney property and it's a tragedy, period. Keeping media and officials off-site looks like you're trying to hide something and not taking ownership for the incident. No matter what, though. One family ... well, actually more ... the driver's family ... and any families on that bus have had their lives changed in a horrific way. Just very, very sad.
Originally Posted By Manfried This is a tragedy again. I think we need to let the NTSB do its job before jumping to conclusions on who is at fault. The monorail accident wasn't the company's fault totally. Trained operators were not following procedures. And now those procedures have been revised.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss The Orlando Sentinel is now reporting that witnesses on the bus say the children were riding on the sidewalk, but somehow the boy fell or swerved onto the road. He hit the side of the bus and was dragged under and/or run over. <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ybut82m" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/ybut82m</a>
Originally Posted By LadyandtheTramp "BUT ... that said, anything other than the kid darting into the path of the bus at last minute would likely place some/most/all the culpability on Disney here" According to the news reports, that basically is what happened here.
Originally Posted By LoyalOrderWaterBuffa ~~~~he was wearing a helmet~~~~ who cares bout that because getting run over by a bus your are dead. you might servive being hit by a bus but not if you are trapped under, run over and dragged by a bus.
