r/worldnewsvideo • u/real-m-f-in-talk Worldly 🌎 • May 23 '23

News Report 🌏 NC sergeant suspended 5-days after driving pass stopped school bus, nearly hitting student.

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u/HumanAverse May 23 '23

Who passes on the right?

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u/FullyRisenPhoenix May 23 '23

Entitled cops, that’s who. 😑

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u/Igoos99 May 23 '23

Not just on the right, but apparently in the gravel shoulder at the side of the road.

Pretty sure in my state, you can only go around on the right shoulder if the shoulder is paved. If it’s gravel, you are supposed to wait for the obstruction to clear. (Typically the obstruction is someone making a left turn.) So, even if this wasn’t a school bus, he’d still be breaking the law going around a stopped vehicle on a non-paved shoulder.

(I think this law varies by state so I can’t say for sure. but basically, he just flubbed this every way possible.)

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u/Jazzlike-Principle67 May 24 '23

Dirty Cops can go anywhere they damn well please.

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u/Kellykeli May 23 '23

Runaway trucks with nowhere else to go, race car drivers on race tracks, trains, and cops, apparently.

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u/the_xyph May 23 '23

I was wondering why they parked on the left in the first place? Don’t the yanks drive on the right? It seems safer to me to just pull over and not force the kid across the road. What’s the reason for the driver pulling into the opposite lane?

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u/codynumber2 May 23 '23

He doesn't pull into the left lane, he stops the bus in the right lane. There are no stripes (pretty common on back roads). The cop is passing on the shoulder, technically off the road.

Regardless of which side you pass, its illegal to pass a stopped bus, period.

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u/the_xyph May 23 '23

Gotcha, thanks. I can see it now. :)

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u/[deleted] May 24 '23

Honest question why do school bus parked on the left instead of next to the sidewalk on the right?

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u/HumanAverse May 24 '23

It's not in the left lane. It's in the right lane. The cop when into the shoulder and passed. There is no sidewalk, just the dirt/gravel shoulder.