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A crossing guard & 3 pedestrians, including 2 children were hit by a driver at 3pm in the afternoon outside a school (www.cbc.ca)
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[–] 11 points 2 days ago (5 children)

People are idiots.

I've witnessed a lady stopped at the crosswalk by the guard and his stop sign, then decide she just didn't want to wait any more so drove through anyway.

The guard was trying to somewhat step in front of her car and hold the sign in front of the car window, but she just kept going so he had to get out of the way. Luckily no kids were in the immediate path.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    Crossing guards should be allowed to smash your windshield for that.

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  • [–] 2 points 21 hours ago* (2 children)

    😀 that would make a fun video game.

    They should at least have magnetic GPS trackers they can slap on the car that instantly radios police of the infraction.

    We had a traffic control worker get run over by a crazy lady. She was stopped in a lane due to construction and with kids in the car decided waiting wasn't fun, and drove into the traffic sign person. I think injured their leg and foot by running it over.

    Somebody who does that should lose their license

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  • [–] 3 points 21 hours ago

    Losing your license for such a thing should be the absolute floor of punishment. What should actually happen is they're imprisoned for violent attempted vehicular homicide.

    Sadly all of the law seems to side with running over whomever you like, so long as they aren't a cop or in a car themselves.

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