Kev wrote:
Adrian wrote:

Kev ) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying
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Reversing is clearly hazardous even for a car driver.

Driving *forwards* is "clearly hazardous even for a car driver".

With proper observation, reversing is no more hazardous than that.

Except that the bus driver had already past a space that he could have
pulled into allowing me to move forwards rather than backwards.
If driving backwards was no more hazardous than driving forwards we
would drive backwards everywhere but I maintain that reversing on a
busy road at 6.55 am when it is still dark IS more hazardous than
driving forwards.


I don't, obviously, know the circumstances but suggest that the bus
driver was already committed to going past the space. Bus passengers
seldom use seat belts, can be standing, can have babies held in their
arms, are often children and the aged, etc. It is very, very dangerous
to bring a bus to a halt rapidly or even as gently as a car driver might
think of as a normal stop..

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Sue