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• Mom Found Guilty of Trespassing After Jumping on Speeding School Bus

  A Raeford, North Carolina, mother says she feels relieved after receiving a guilty verdict in connection with her actions in January, when she boarded a school bus she says was speeding through a residential neighborhood. Mindy Brumfiel says the bus appeared to be traveling more than 40 miles an hour in a 15 mile per hour zone, and so when it stopped, she got on. After the bus driver asked her to get off, she said she wouldn't until she got her own daughter off -- then proceded to call the driver and idiot and tell him he was speeding. Read More... Posted Mar 04 2009, 01:31 PM by Kate Tuttle with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: mother, parents, mothers, school bus safety, speeding, bus, school bus, maternal instinct, trespassing, speeding school bus, bus safety

• Speeders to Lose Licenses Under Proposed UK Law

  British authorities are considering new regulations that would assign a six-point penalty to speeding more than 20 miles per hour over the limit.  Twelve points result in a loss of license, creating a two-strikes-and-you're-out policy for experienced drivers and a one-strike policy for drivers who've been on the road for less than eighteen months, and  are only allowed six points before losing their licenses. The proposal comes in the wake of a 2007 figures showing that 2,946 were killed that year, over 50 of them, pedestrian children. I confess, I speed regularly when driving on the highway.  I set the cruise control about 7 mph over the limit and leave it there until I hit heavy traffic or a construction zone.  At first, this new proposal seemed draconian, but 20 mph over the limit is certainly more dangerous than seven.  If this kind of law was passed where I live, I'd probably never dare to go more than two or three mph over, within a reasonable speedometer margin of error.  Perhaps that's not such a bad idea anyway. What do you think?  Is the proposal too harsh, not harsh enough or just right?   Posted Nov 21 2008, 12:06 PM by Shannon LC Cate with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: speeding, Shannon LC Cate, traffic accidents, license suspension, traffic fatalities, speed limit, children killed by cars, traffic tickets

• Life-Sized Kid Photo Signs Freak Speeding Drivers Out

  So you're blithely driving down the road, enjoying the day and the sunshine and maybe the tunes, and maybe you're going a bit faster than the speed limit, but so what, everyone does, and besides, you're in the groove, you're one with the road, you're WHAT THE HELL IS THAT??!  OMG IT'S A KID!  PRACTICALLY ON THE ROAD!!  I ALMOST HIT HIM! OMG! OMG! OMG! ...breathe... What the FUCK was that??!  Where does that kid get off, scaring me like that? What kid plays on the road like that? I'm gonna give him a piece of my mind! That kid should know NOT to play by the road like that, why, he could get KILLED or something! He's a...it's a...HEY! It's not real! It's a...cardboard cutout of a kid??! I swear, this guy is BRILLIANT. He makes life-size photographic cardboard cutouts of kids (interesting hobby), and noticed that drivers slowed waaaay down when he put a few at the side of the road to advertise them. Yeah, I'd slow down too! WTF!  Seriously, though, isn't this brilliant? At least, until drivers get conditioned to the idea, like we do with the Fake Highway Patrol Guy, but doesn't a part of you react with the brake pedal anyway? Even if you know it's a fake? And maybe slowing drivers down a bit will one day save a real kid's life.   Posted Jul 26 2007, 07:52 AM by Karen Murphy with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: kids, driving, speeding, driving fast, cardboard cutouts

• Uh Oh: "My Kid Needs to Pee" is NOT a Valid Excuse for Speeding

  Don't tell me I'm the only one who has driven a wee bit faster when there's been a kid in the back of the car who suddenly discovers that he forgot to go to the bathroom after all before you left home 20 minutes ago, even though he told you at the time that he did. Hasn't this happened to you? Or maybe it's potty training month (or year, whatever) and your kid has to make a small deposit in every public bathroom within a 20-mile radius of anywhere. Really. I can't be the only one, can I? Because how else did this Arizona women think to tell police, when she was pulled over for going 90 in a 55-mph zone, that her friend's kids, who were in the car at the time, ALL needed to pee which was supposed to explain her excessive and unsafe rate of speed? Oh, but oops, turns out they didn't actually need to pee after all, and bigger oops, the mom consumed a beer or two and maybe some schnapps (ew) while behind the wheel. Maybe it was the mom who needed to pee? There's nothing funny of course about drinking and driving, and I'll bet this woman's friend won't be letting her kids ride with her much any more. Though one look at her photo would certainly give me pause.   Posted Jul 05 2007, 07:27 AM by Karen Murphy with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: arizona, potty training, speeding, pee, drinking while driving