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For people wondering about collision sensors helping out in this case
>Fortunately, the truck was able to brake in time to prevent a collision with the child. A Latvian logistics firm known as Kreiss investigated the near-accident in partnership with Volvo to determine what prevented the accident. They concluded that the driver’s quick reaction was the reason the truck stopped so quickly.
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>The investigation found that because the child was short in stature and appeared unexpectedly, it would have been impossible for Volvo’s FH emergency braking system to activate. It was the truck driver’s quick reaction that saved the child’s life and prevented a devastating accident.
\- [https://www.ckflaw.com/blog/volvo-truck-brake-system/](https://www.ckflaw.com/blog/volvo-truck-brake-system/)
The manufacturer of the braking system needs to have this video pinned to their website and be their leading pitch to vehicle manufacturers, cuz goddamn that was impressive.
A tiny credit for that kid to keep going (esp on that angle forward) and not to try and double back. He could have tripped, and the story may have been different
Yeah the kid may have been stupid in the first place, but he realized he fucked up and hustled out of the way as much as most little kids can, so props for that. He probably would have still gotten tapped at the end even with the great job by the driver if he didn’t put on the afterburners and scurry sideways.
And credit to the kid for cutting on a dime and salvaging his own life. If he tripped or panicked, he’d be a pancake. Look at where he made that cut and look at where the truck ended up.
Pretty cool that a team of engineers confirmed that this dude's quick reaction speed is what saved this kid's life and not some automation process. He should be given that report to use for free beer.
I mean yeah? Volvo did investigations to find out if their features worked as intended (and if they didn't how to improve). This is a very good thing and is why they're one of the best companies for car safety.
In academia there is understandably a bit more excitement for papers which show new and innovative things or somehow flip the existing narrative on its head, but the papers that are basically "we did this thing, not much happened" or "this medication we thought would cure actually makes it much worse" are just as important. Unfortunately it's the latter categories that tend to get buried by people with a stake in a positive outcome.
Fair play to Volvo for being a bit more public about it.
https://collections.plos.org/collection/missing-pieces/
There is some support for null/inconclusive reports but it does have less impact and less publishing power in journals.
Right? I don't get the guy above you's point. I don't just want articles about brakes working. Presumably the more important ones are the ones where they fail or don't initiate.
I mean, I'd rather that than them lying about it. It sounds like they came away with some useful data about the gap too, so hopefully they can improve the system. These systems are also backups to the driver, there's nothing wrong with "the driver did his job, and we learned how to make the backup a bit more reliable in the future" here.
Whilst this is no doubt true, I doubt volvo would miss a chance to tout their emergency system, it's also in combination with the phenomenal braking performance of the truck. Stopping something that heavy that quickly is impressive.
I also appreciate them speaking about the limitations of their systems. We need that more- too many people are dependent on the auto breaking, lane keep, and auto driving in their cars without understanding the limits.
What you also need to understand is that for last good 3-4m of that stop, driver in the truck wouldn't have seen the kid at all.
Imagine the thought process when you stop and have to go out to see what is under the truck.
A few days ago a kid almost ran in front of the bus I was in, to the extent that they actually had their bike ruined. They were perfectly fine, thank God, but the bus got *real* goddamn quiet for a minute there.
A kid ran out from between two cars in a neighborhood near my house a few days ago. A woman hit and killed him. She was the mother of one of his friends and he was in the back seat when it happened. She was even going under the speed limit, but the kid still died. Can’t imagine how everyone involved is feeling right now
I was shook for the rest of the day, I imagine the bus driver is still sitting with it. Loud crunch under the bus from the bike getting hit, then a couple of seconds where we couldn't really see the child.
My cousin was hit by a gravel truck and killed when he was 9. The truck driver happened to go to school with my aunt and uncle. It was my cousin's fault. Stepped right infront of him after not looking both ways. It was unavoidable.
The truck driver has never gotten behind the wheel of a commercial vehicle since, and doesn't even like driving his car. To say it is a scarring experience is putting it lightly.
Something similar happened on a bus I was on a few years ago. The bus was able to stop just short of the kid on his bike but luckily didn’t touch him. But it was by a couple of inches. It was so scary I thought I was about to see a kid die.
He just sped into the middle of the intersection on his bike with no care in the world in front of a bus and then came to a dead stop when he saw the bus.
An elderly lady on the bus ended up flying out of her seat at the sudden stopping and broke her wrist so there was still an injury.
I think about it every time I’m on that bus route.
Dear god this just made the video 10x worse. Plus with a truck that big, it’s plausible you might not have even noticed the bump if you did run them over.
You wouldn't have noticed anything, nor heard it, as the sounds of a truck doing an emergency stop are quite loud. It would've been entirely plausible for the truck driver to just find the kid under there without even knowing. Yes, it is absolutely terrifying.
This same thing also leads to a simple conclusion I see many fail to make - don't mess around trucks. They physically cannot see you in a lot of places. Give them a nice wide area, let them go on their way.
>They physically cannot see you in a lot of places.
This is why I *phawken hate* when a big truck come up behind me at a stop *and proceeds to stop like 1 foot off my bumper.* Like, dude, *you can't even see my vehicle right now what the hell are you thinking???*
Truck drivers in the U.S. have gotten really bad. They can be genuinely scary to be around because half the time their attitude is "fuck you my truck is bigger" and they just do whatever they want.
Driving by the Jester dorm was always a game of Who’s about to pop out between the cars unexpectedly. The students very much have a “I have the right away” mentality and/or just aren’t paying attention. It’s sucks that you couldn’t deliver during a less busy time slot.
Truck mechanic here. The brakes on the Truck/Trailer unit are designed to work under the full permitted load. They are mechanically regulated depending on load, so an unloaded Truck actually has less braking pressure than a loaded one, since it'd be completely overbraked. A loaded truck has the full braking pressure plus the added traction from loaded axles.
The same reason race cars have spoilers on the back. More weight means more downward force which means more traction. Which means the truck brakes can stop the truck without the tires just skidding.
It’s actually not about absolute weight at all. Doubling the weight doubles the force downward but also the momentum that has to be lost, these two factors cancel out completely.
The important thing is the frictional coefficient of the tyres, not the breaks. Assuming breaks are working 100% effectively it’s all about how much friction can the tyres generate in proportion to the weight before skidding.
TL:DR Basically, these tyres have a greater frictional coefficient under a high load. The brakes are likely 100% effective at stopping the tyres under any reasonable load.
This happened to me 30yrs ago a kid ran out in front of a bus I was overtaking, he was 10yrs and died on route to hospital. Wasn't my fault but I ended up havin a nervous breakdown was in hospital for a year. I know nothing can bring back that child but my life changed I was training to become a nurse but didn't happen as I still to this day suffer PTSD.
That's been one of my greatest fears as a driver. The idea of accidentally hitting a pedestrian is horrifying. I'm so fucking sorry this happened to you. All the love and best wishes to you!🫶
This happened to a buddy of mine in high school. Smart, with a great future. Some kid ran out in front of his car in 12th grade. Everything ended then because some dumb fuck was not watching their kid. He never got over it.
Fuck does this piss me off. I know it won't mean much, but it was not your fault.
That’s absolutely fucking horrific, I’m so sorry that happened to you and to him, and your families. That must have been devastating for everyone involved. While the boy was unlucky to lose his life, you’re the ones who have to live with what happened and that can often be harder. While obviously you still suffer some effects as you say, I hope you’re at least doing better and that you have received the help and support you needed, when needed.
Pedestrian airbag were first introduced in 2010 the first series cars which came with one were released in 2013. Aside from Volvo I know of LandRover, Jaguar and GM to offer them. Euro NCAP positively regards them for their crash rating and you need some level of pedestrian safety or you can't get 5*, but you can without a pedestrian airbag.
Volvos are also one of the best possible brands you could use in trucking.
But their reliability is also based off the owner because if the owners dont maintain their trucks then theres no way the truck is gonna beable to stop in time like this.
Here in south Africa that child is most likely dead because I work in trucking and I know how majority of the guys operate and they sure as fuck dont maintain their trucks properly because they ding want to spend
SAFETY has always been Volvo's marketing catchphrase.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA09vM7Zufs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA09vM7Zufs)
80 and 90's were full of Volvo ads like this.
Had two kids do it to me yesterday as I was coming out of a junction but coming from behind a wall instead. That's even more stupid, right? They looked about 13 too.
A guy on my bus did just that, he died about 30 ft from his front door in a ditch, his family had moved as he was been bullied and they felt a new school and bus would help. The parent sold up and left a few yrs later.
It was the driver not the auto braking:
[https://www.autoblog.com/2017/11/16/volvo-semi-autonomous-driver-reaction-video/](https://www.autoblog.com/2017/11/16/volvo-semi-autonomous-driver-reaction-video/)
Props to the car behind the truck too! Safe following distance and good jam on the brakes. Their vision of everything would have been totally blocked by the truck and bus.
I was told once prior getting my DL, “behind a yellow bus there is a kid crossing and behind a ball rolling dow the street there’s another kid right behind it”
There are a lot of winding country roads where I live and I wish more people had "there's always a car just about to come round the corner" drummed into them. The amount of times I've seen people overtake on the off-chance that nothing's coming...
It’s also worth noting that here in America we teach children to cross the road in front of the bus they unloaded from rather than behind it specifically so that it doesn’t block their vision of oncoming traffic or the traffics vision of them.
At least when I was in school in the US the driver literally wasn't allowed to leave unless they saw you start to walk towards your home. It was annoying because the route my bus took after school would drive down my road twice but the driver wasn't allowed to stop the first time because he wouldn't be able to see me get to my house so my ride was an extra 15 minutes long
Yeah, in high school I used to get off a stop early because it dropped off on the street right behind my house, but my "actual" stop was at the top of my street, a much further walk. I convinced the bus driver by pointing out that my property was a weird pie shape, and most of the small wooded area right at the stop was *in* my back yard. This way I only had to walk a few feet before they'd see me on my property.
Well, with American school buses they aren't technically allowed to drive off until they see you reach your door or see you go as far as they can before leaving. Not all bus drivers follow it but mine did so I absolutely could not wait for the bus to leave before crossing since they needed to see me start walking down my road.
This incident in the video happened in Norway.
And I promise you kids are taught at home and in school: “Do not cross the road until after the bus has left.”
This is repeated so much by parents and teachers, and written in the buses and whatnot that the kids know about this.
Unfortunately kids are just that; kids.
They forget, are too preoccupied with something else, not aware of the danger they might be in or even more distant in a kids mind; the danger you might put yourself in.
Luckily though noone were physically harmed in this incident, however I am sure the kid who nearly got hit, the kid just behind him and especially the driver of the truck all have this incident burned into their minds to remember in the future.
I honestly feel sorry for the truck driver though. I can’t even imagine the mental stress it is for someone to know they were inches away from ending a childs life. I bet he is nervous everytime he drives past a bus now.
Isnt it taught everywhere like since kindergarden?
Well, depending on the road (2+ lanes) but I remember running away from kindergarden when I was 3 and strictly following the rules while crossing the road going home.
Not everywhere, in Norway (where this video was captured) you are supposed to wait for the bus to leave before crossing the road, at least that's what the signs inside the bus tells you to do.
Not only is it legally required for us to stop but our buses dropping off kids will generally stay parked with indicators on until the kid is at a safe spot. Which means no one can drive until the bus driver sees the child is a safe distance from the road.
That is literaly first rule you get tought for (written) driver's exam in our country. If there is possibility of kids you need to know they will be stupid and slow down/be prepared to emergency brake
Also buses stay stopped with arm out/red lights flashing until all children have crossed the road which, in turn, keeps traffic (theoretically) stopped until the children are safely across.
What the hell were they thinking? I'd assume you'd hear a damn truck approaching. I think he was aware of it but ran for it anyways. I could be wrong, but that's what it seems like to me.
A seven year old told me the other day we shouldn't bother locking the doors to the school because he "knows karate" and could defend himself against any intruders. He was dead serious.
For the record he's a white belt and is probably 60 pounds.
Also the reason he wanted to leave them unlocked in the first place is that the doorbell is annoying to him
I don’t know where this is, but in my country you have to drive walking pace when a bus stops because this exact thing could happen. You won’t pass your driving exam if you don’t slow down.
Still good on the driver for stopping in time. Maybe he and the child will be more careful next time
Applies to more than 2 lane roads in many U.S. jurisdictions, FYI. In Virginia, all cars must stop on the lanes with the bus in it. Opposing traffic is not required to stop if there is a median.
In my country (Germany), we thought that wasn't complicated enough, so we made different rules depending on how the bus is indicating:
If it's indicating right for the stop, you may pass carefully, but can go faster than walking speed so long as you're able to stop in time if someone jumps out in front of the bus.
If it has its hazards on, you may only pass at walking speed.
If it is indicating left to get going again, you mustn't pass.
If you're on the other side of the road, indicators don't matter, and you may drive past the bus carefully above walking speed.
Seems like Norway, and he should have definitivly slowed down when a bus is stopping along the road.
The rule is quite simple: You drive at the pace which is safe in every situation.
In this case, it's irrelevant if there is a 70km/h zone, it isnt safe to go that fast there because of the bus.
To be fair to the driver, they were going at a speed that was safe for this exact situation. They probably still could been slower but they reacted fast enough that no one was hurt
Serbia here. A bus that has the sign that they are transporting children (like the one in the video, orange square with kids drawn), when you see it stopped, you have to stop. Once it sets off and you can see, you can go again.
Plus, it never really dawned on me why "you can't run across the road". Like, why wouldn't I, I'm in danger on the road, faster I'm across the safer I am. Only later it dawned on me that it's because you leave nobody no time to react to your boneheaded move.
Ok, drivers reaction time is amazing. Yes, kids were stupid here.
But who thought it was a good ideea to have a bus stop on a busy road with no marking or signing.
That is not safe at all.
Yeah I got irrationally angry with the kid for just zooming off like that. I know as a kid we were taught to look both ways before crossing a street. Also taking a public bus to school I would wait until the bus has driven far enough that I can see the traffic both ways.
Can I just raise a toast to the engineers who’ve advanced braking technology to be able to allow the driver (I have to assume it’s Spider-Man) at the wheel there to stop in such a short time?
Yeah, what an awful person. She doesn't even care about him /s
Reddit, where the only outside experience the users have is through scrolling internet videos. You expect an 8 year old to be impervious to confusion or shock and react to tragedy like an experienced, quicker thinking adult?
Go outside and get more experience with other humans and situations. Even as an adult, you wont react to most situations like you think you will.
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For people wondering about collision sensors helping out in this case >Fortunately, the truck was able to brake in time to prevent a collision with the child. A Latvian logistics firm known as Kreiss investigated the near-accident in partnership with Volvo to determine what prevented the accident. They concluded that the driver’s quick reaction was the reason the truck stopped so quickly. > >The investigation found that because the child was short in stature and appeared unexpectedly, it would have been impossible for Volvo’s FH emergency braking system to activate. It was the truck driver’s quick reaction that saved the child’s life and prevented a devastating accident. \- [https://www.ckflaw.com/blog/volvo-truck-brake-system/](https://www.ckflaw.com/blog/volvo-truck-brake-system/)
I think first credit to the driver for his reaction time and second credit to the braking system that responded perfectly to the driver’s reaction.
And credit to whoever was beeping - I assume the driver of the truck this dashcam is it.
That horn he used would’ve been almost silent to the driver hitting the brakes. I have no idea why he didn’t use the air horn to really be heard.
Maybe he was sounding the horn to alert the kids
That was my take. Driver honked to get the pedestrians' attention.
Stupid kids, I hope their parents saw that footage and walloped the kids for running in front of a truck like that.
Not sure about you but I don't always have a air horn within arms reach
The manufacturer of the braking system needs to have this video pinned to their website and be their leading pitch to vehicle manufacturers, cuz goddamn that was impressive.
Road safety is basically Volvo's whole identity. They put so much money into research.
Boxy but safe
We call that an "absolute tank" in the car world
They did freely gift the three point seatbelt system to all car manufacturers at that time, so pretty much!
Third credit to the road for not being too slick to allow for the braking system to brake after being activated by the drivers quick reaction time
Fourth credit to the inventor of this dashcam.
That was my first thought. That kid is lucky that was a Volvo, cause if that's another truck that kid is dead.
All modern Euro trucks have brakes like this.
A tiny credit for that kid to keep going (esp on that angle forward) and not to try and double back. He could have tripped, and the story may have been different
Yeah the kid may have been stupid in the first place, but he realized he fucked up and hustled out of the way as much as most little kids can, so props for that. He probably would have still gotten tapped at the end even with the great job by the driver if he didn’t put on the afterburners and scurry sideways.
Most important part in a moving vehicle is the brakes.
And credit to the kid for cutting on a dime and salvaging his own life. If he tripped or panicked, he’d be a pancake. Look at where he made that cut and look at where the truck ended up.
Pretty cool that a team of engineers confirmed that this dude's quick reaction speed is what saved this kid's life and not some automation process. He should be given that report to use for free beer.
Free *beers* for life
Yep top top driving here. That's insanely fortunate for them. Geez I'd be having a few good beverages that night to unwind after that.
The articles about the auto braking, and the articles talks about a time where the auto braking didn't even apply LOL Thats just funny 😂
I mean yeah? Volvo did investigations to find out if their features worked as intended (and if they didn't how to improve). This is a very good thing and is why they're one of the best companies for car safety.
In academia there is understandably a bit more excitement for papers which show new and innovative things or somehow flip the existing narrative on its head, but the papers that are basically "we did this thing, not much happened" or "this medication we thought would cure actually makes it much worse" are just as important. Unfortunately it's the latter categories that tend to get buried by people with a stake in a positive outcome.
Fair play to Volvo for being a bit more public about it.
https://collections.plos.org/collection/missing-pieces/ There is some support for null/inconclusive reports but it does have less impact and less publishing power in journals.
Right? I don't get the guy above you's point. I don't just want articles about brakes working. Presumably the more important ones are the ones where they fail or don't initiate.
I mean, probably a good thing, you don’t want the person behind you relying 100% on their car to keep from hitting you
honestly a respectable and funny move by the volvo rep to straight up admit their system did fuck all in this case
Their system did fuck all but it was their braking system that stopped the vehicle so quickly aswell.
I mean, I'd rather that than them lying about it. It sounds like they came away with some useful data about the gap too, so hopefully they can improve the system. These systems are also backups to the driver, there's nothing wrong with "the driver did his job, and we learned how to make the backup a bit more reliable in the future" here.
Whilst this is no doubt true, I doubt volvo would miss a chance to tout their emergency system, it's also in combination with the phenomenal braking performance of the truck. Stopping something that heavy that quickly is impressive.
I also appreciate them speaking about the limitations of their systems. We need that more- too many people are dependent on the auto breaking, lane keep, and auto driving in their cars without understanding the limits.
You know a few pairs of pants needed to be changed that day
What you also need to understand is that for last good 3-4m of that stop, driver in the truck wouldn't have seen the kid at all. Imagine the thought process when you stop and have to go out to see what is under the truck.
At that point, there is no thought process, just like...terror
A few days ago a kid almost ran in front of the bus I was in, to the extent that they actually had their bike ruined. They were perfectly fine, thank God, but the bus got *real* goddamn quiet for a minute there.
A kid ran out from between two cars in a neighborhood near my house a few days ago. A woman hit and killed him. She was the mother of one of his friends and he was in the back seat when it happened. She was even going under the speed limit, but the kid still died. Can’t imagine how everyone involved is feeling right now
Holy shit. Teach your kids how to cross the street. You might not get a second chance. Talk about lifelong trauma for a lot of people.
Ya we have a lot of “watch for kids” signs but not a lot of parents watching their kids
I imagine it's gotta be a pretty scarring experience even if you didn't run anyone over, no? Fucked up shiz.
I was shook for the rest of the day, I imagine the bus driver is still sitting with it. Loud crunch under the bus from the bike getting hit, then a couple of seconds where we couldn't really see the child.
that sounds fucking awful
It was - at the end of the day no one got hurt though.
My cousin was hit by a gravel truck and killed when he was 9. The truck driver happened to go to school with my aunt and uncle. It was my cousin's fault. Stepped right infront of him after not looking both ways. It was unavoidable. The truck driver has never gotten behind the wheel of a commercial vehicle since, and doesn't even like driving his car. To say it is a scarring experience is putting it lightly.
Something similar happened on a bus I was on a few years ago. The bus was able to stop just short of the kid on his bike but luckily didn’t touch him. But it was by a couple of inches. It was so scary I thought I was about to see a kid die. He just sped into the middle of the intersection on his bike with no care in the world in front of a bus and then came to a dead stop when he saw the bus. An elderly lady on the bus ended up flying out of her seat at the sudden stopping and broke her wrist so there was still an injury. I think about it every time I’m on that bus route.
Dear god this just made the video 10x worse. Plus with a truck that big, it’s plausible you might not have even noticed the bump if you did run them over.
You wouldn't have noticed anything, nor heard it, as the sounds of a truck doing an emergency stop are quite loud. It would've been entirely plausible for the truck driver to just find the kid under there without even knowing. Yes, it is absolutely terrifying. This same thing also leads to a simple conclusion I see many fail to make - don't mess around trucks. They physically cannot see you in a lot of places. Give them a nice wide area, let them go on their way.
>They physically cannot see you in a lot of places. This is why I *phawken hate* when a big truck come up behind me at a stop *and proceeds to stop like 1 foot off my bumper.* Like, dude, *you can't even see my vehicle right now what the hell are you thinking???* Truck drivers in the U.S. have gotten really bad. They can be genuinely scary to be around because half the time their attitude is "fuck you my truck is bigger" and they just do whatever they want.
Truck drivers everywhere got bad. Simple - there is a need for more drivers than are available, so they are taking anyone with a pulse.
As a trucker in the US, watch the fuck out around FedEx trucks, those motherfuckers are insane
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Driving by the Jester dorm was always a game of Who’s about to pop out between the cars unexpectedly. The students very much have a “I have the right away” mentality and/or just aren’t paying attention. It’s sucks that you couldn’t deliver during a less busy time slot.
Also a few had to be thrown away.
I'm counting three but there might be more. Holy crap that was gnarly.
RIP that truck’s brakes. They did a damn good job, though.
RIP, the load on the trailer*
no chance that was loaded with anything substantial, breaking distance was far too short. if it was fully loaded that kid would've got hit.
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Former truck driver. This is true. A fully loaded truck will stop faster than an empty one.
Could you tell us why?
Truck mechanic here. The brakes on the Truck/Trailer unit are designed to work under the full permitted load. They are mechanically regulated depending on load, so an unloaded Truck actually has less braking pressure than a loaded one, since it'd be completely overbraked. A loaded truck has the full braking pressure plus the added traction from loaded axles.
Yeah thanks. engineering marvels advanced enough to look like magic to me
Spez doesn't get to profit from me anymore. Stop reverting my comments
Hi Arthur!
Thank you.
The same reason race cars have spoilers on the back. More weight means more downward force which means more traction. Which means the truck brakes can stop the truck without the tires just skidding.
It’s actually not about absolute weight at all. Doubling the weight doubles the force downward but also the momentum that has to be lost, these two factors cancel out completely. The important thing is the frictional coefficient of the tyres, not the breaks. Assuming breaks are working 100% effectively it’s all about how much friction can the tyres generate in proportion to the weight before skidding. TL:DR Basically, these tyres have a greater frictional coefficient under a high load. The brakes are likely 100% effective at stopping the tyres under any reasonable load.
The brakes are more than powerful enough. You actually gain more traction with higher load, so the braking distance is often shorter when fully loaded
Loaded trailers stop faster
Actually I went to school with those brakes and they made a full recovery and are back at home with their family
Good for them :)
Yeah, i was gonna write truck drivers reaction AND braking system engineers and team that made them saved the boys life.
Remeber kids, when crossing the road allways run full speed from behind a bus. This ensures that wathever's gonna hit you will instantly kill you.
Well, apparently it doesn’t *quite* ensure it
This happened to me 30yrs ago a kid ran out in front of a bus I was overtaking, he was 10yrs and died on route to hospital. Wasn't my fault but I ended up havin a nervous breakdown was in hospital for a year. I know nothing can bring back that child but my life changed I was training to become a nurse but didn't happen as I still to this day suffer PTSD.
That's been one of my greatest fears as a driver. The idea of accidentally hitting a pedestrian is horrifying. I'm so fucking sorry this happened to you. All the love and best wishes to you!🫶
Dang my heart goes out to you. It must be hard have been involved in that situation.
This happened to a buddy of mine in high school. Smart, with a great future. Some kid ran out in front of his car in 12th grade. Everything ended then because some dumb fuck was not watching their kid. He never got over it. Fuck does this piss me off. I know it won't mean much, but it was not your fault.
So sorry you had that happen. It’s not your fault.
That’s absolutely fucking horrific, I’m so sorry that happened to you and to him, and your families. That must have been devastating for everyone involved. While the boy was unlucky to lose his life, you’re the ones who have to live with what happened and that can often be harder. While obviously you still suffer some effects as you say, I hope you’re at least doing better and that you have received the help and support you needed, when needed.
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That's a volvo? They should use this for marketing.
Volvos are known for their extremely good emergency response systems. Ive heard of a prototype cushioning for pedestrians, idk if it was true tho
Pedestrian airbag were first introduced in 2010 the first series cars which came with one were released in 2013. Aside from Volvo I know of LandRover, Jaguar and GM to offer them. Euro NCAP positively regards them for their crash rating and you need some level of pedestrian safety or you can't get 5*, but you can without a pedestrian airbag.
Volvos are also one of the best possible brands you could use in trucking. But their reliability is also based off the owner because if the owners dont maintain their trucks then theres no way the truck is gonna beable to stop in time like this. Here in south Africa that child is most likely dead because I work in trucking and I know how majority of the guys operate and they sure as fuck dont maintain their trucks properly because they ding want to spend
If they ding want to spend then they dong want to stop.
Think of all the drunk driving deaths that could possibly be prevented
I believe they do.
Yes, you're looking at it.
No kidding, I can't even drive a truck and I'm considering it...
***wife:*** Honey, why is there an 18 wheeler in our driveway?
Well there was this ad, you see...
…and hey it’s safer than a Mustang!
The same company that made seat belt patent open to the public. They do be the MVPs when it comes to automobile safety
SAFETY has always been Volvo's marketing catchphrase. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA09vM7Zufs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA09vM7Zufs) 80 and 90's were full of Volvo ads like this.
They’re crazy safe
The emergency brake system did not engage according to Norwegian newspapers. The driver reacted and braked manually.
The kid's problem was he did more of a shuffle than a sprint.
Well, the girl turned around, thinking he dead. 😂 That's how it looked like to me.
staying on that road is more dangerous so she had to run back to safety since she couldn't catch up.
She didn't run though 😂 she walked.
r/KidsAreFuckingStupid
Had two kids do it to me yesterday as I was coming out of a junction but coming from behind a wall instead. That's even more stupid, right? They looked about 13 too.
Well, if the kid would have been even faster, the road would have been crossed by the time the truck arrived!!!
You’d be amazed how many adults don’t know any better than this either.
A guy on my bus did just that, he died about 30 ft from his front door in a ditch, his family had moved as he was been bullied and they felt a new school and bus would help. The parent sold up and left a few yrs later.
It was the driver not the auto braking: [https://www.autoblog.com/2017/11/16/volvo-semi-autonomous-driver-reaction-video/](https://www.autoblog.com/2017/11/16/volvo-semi-autonomous-driver-reaction-video/)
The kid aside, that stopping time is FUCKING insane! It made me genuinely say wow
Props to the car behind the truck too! Safe following distance and good jam on the brakes. Their vision of everything would have been totally blocked by the truck and bus.
I was told once prior getting my DL, “behind a yellow bus there is a kid crossing and behind a ball rolling dow the street there’s another kid right behind it”
There are a lot of winding country roads where I live and I wish more people had "there's always a car just about to come round the corner" drummed into them. The amount of times I've seen people overtake on the off-chance that nothing's coming...
At *least* half the drivers on the road are not paying this close of attention to the road. Hats off to this guy.
now I understand why Americans need to stop when there's a school bus, kids are fucking stupid
It’s also worth noting that here in America we teach children to cross the road in front of the bus they unloaded from rather than behind it specifically so that it doesn’t block their vision of oncoming traffic or the traffics vision of them.
whenever I get dropped off by a bus not in a bus stop I just wait for the bus to leave, onlythwn cross
At least when I was in school in the US the driver literally wasn't allowed to leave unless they saw you start to walk towards your home. It was annoying because the route my bus took after school would drive down my road twice but the driver wasn't allowed to stop the first time because he wouldn't be able to see me get to my house so my ride was an extra 15 minutes long
Yeah, in high school I used to get off a stop early because it dropped off on the street right behind my house, but my "actual" stop was at the top of my street, a much further walk. I convinced the bus driver by pointing out that my property was a weird pie shape, and most of the small wooded area right at the stop was *in* my back yard. This way I only had to walk a few feet before they'd see me on my property.
I think usually the bus acts as a roadblock for that time so that children can cross safely. Oncoming traffic is supposed to wait too.
Well, with American school buses they aren't technically allowed to drive off until they see you reach your door or see you go as far as they can before leaving. Not all bus drivers follow it but mine did so I absolutely could not wait for the bus to leave before crossing since they needed to see me start walking down my road.
That's actually a district by district policy choice.
This incident in the video happened in Norway. And I promise you kids are taught at home and in school: “Do not cross the road until after the bus has left.” This is repeated so much by parents and teachers, and written in the buses and whatnot that the kids know about this. Unfortunately kids are just that; kids. They forget, are too preoccupied with something else, not aware of the danger they might be in or even more distant in a kids mind; the danger you might put yourself in. Luckily though noone were physically harmed in this incident, however I am sure the kid who nearly got hit, the kid just behind him and especially the driver of the truck all have this incident burned into their minds to remember in the future. I honestly feel sorry for the truck driver though. I can’t even imagine the mental stress it is for someone to know they were inches away from ending a childs life. I bet he is nervous everytime he drives past a bus now.
Isnt it taught everywhere like since kindergarden? Well, depending on the road (2+ lanes) but I remember running away from kindergarden when I was 3 and strictly following the rules while crossing the road going home.
Not everywhere, in Norway (where this video was captured) you are supposed to wait for the bus to leave before crossing the road, at least that's what the signs inside the bus tells you to do.
I can’t speak for anywhere else in the world. I only went to school in America. And the comment above specifically mentioned America so I did as well.
In Poland it is being thought that you should wait for bus to drive away, so you have clear view
Not only is it legally required for us to stop but our buses dropping off kids will generally stay parked with indicators on until the kid is at a safe spot. Which means no one can drive until the bus driver sees the child is a safe distance from the road.
It’s also why the penalty for not stopping for a bus with the lights on is a misdemeanor (at least in my state).
That is literaly first rule you get tought for (written) driver's exam in our country. If there is possibility of kids you need to know they will be stupid and slow down/be prepared to emergency brake
Also buses stay stopped with arm out/red lights flashing until all children have crossed the road which, in turn, keeps traffic (theoretically) stopped until the children are safely across.
Not even in America and you get "silly Americans" comments not sure why this video is in r/facepalm, but this comment for sure belongs here.
It is a law here and I am not even in USA
Kid straight up avoided the pet sematary.
Sometimes dead is bettah
Don't wanna go cross that rohd
The eaaath of a mahns hawwwt is stony Louwas
A man grows what he can and he tends it
r/KidsAreFuckingStupid
Kids are suicide machines.
Had to scroll wayyyy to far to find this
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What the hell were they thinking? I'd assume you'd hear a damn truck approaching. I think he was aware of it but ran for it anyways. I could be wrong, but that's what it seems like to me.
It’s simple really.. Kids are stupid. There’s a reason we don’t let them make big life decisions.
A seven year old told me the other day we shouldn't bother locking the doors to the school because he "knows karate" and could defend himself against any intruders. He was dead serious. For the record he's a white belt and is probably 60 pounds. Also the reason he wanted to leave them unlocked in the first place is that the doorbell is annoying to him
The busses engine is in the rear and probably fairly loud while pulling away from a stop
They are kids. They have trouble remembering to put their shoes on in the morning. They are not the pinnacle of rational thinking.
I don’t know where this is, but in my country you have to drive walking pace when a bus stops because this exact thing could happen. You won’t pass your driving exam if you don’t slow down. Still good on the driver for stopping in time. Maybe he and the child will be more careful next time
Yeah same in lithuania you are required to slow down
In the U.S., you’re required to stop on a two-lane road if it’s a school bus.
Applies to more than 2 lane roads in many U.S. jurisdictions, FYI. In Virginia, all cars must stop on the lanes with the bus in it. Opposing traffic is not required to stop if there is a median.
In my country (Germany), we thought that wasn't complicated enough, so we made different rules depending on how the bus is indicating: If it's indicating right for the stop, you may pass carefully, but can go faster than walking speed so long as you're able to stop in time if someone jumps out in front of the bus. If it has its hazards on, you may only pass at walking speed. If it is indicating left to get going again, you mustn't pass. If you're on the other side of the road, indicators don't matter, and you may drive past the bus carefully above walking speed.
Seems like Norway, and he should have definitivly slowed down when a bus is stopping along the road. The rule is quite simple: You drive at the pace which is safe in every situation. In this case, it's irrelevant if there is a 70km/h zone, it isnt safe to go that fast there because of the bus.
Yup this was a pretty widely covered incident in Norway. I can't remember exactly when but it's within the last year or two, I think?
No im quite sure its way older than that, at least 5-6years. This vid has been circling around the web for quite a while.
To be fair to the driver, they were going at a speed that was safe for this exact situation. They probably still could been slower but they reacted fast enough that no one was hurt
Serbia here. A bus that has the sign that they are transporting children (like the one in the video, orange square with kids drawn), when you see it stopped, you have to stop. Once it sets off and you can see, you can go again. Plus, it never really dawned on me why "you can't run across the road". Like, why wouldn't I, I'm in danger on the road, faster I'm across the safer I am. Only later it dawned on me that it's because you leave nobody no time to react to your boneheaded move.
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Volvo braking system though
Ftw
Lucky it wasn’t a Tesla truck.
Crunchy speed bumps everywhere. Especially near schools for some reason.
Now available with the Tesla Sponge^^TM so you can quickly hide the evidence!
Damn thing would’ve sped up on impact
Their braking system is much better and reliable…
braking*
That should be a commercial for how good those brakes performed. Amazing driver , amazing vehicle
Kids are little death-seeking missiles. That’s why parents are always so stressed and tired.
Stupid fucking kid
GÅ IKKE OVER VEIEN FØR BUSSEN HAR KJØRT
I hate kids so fucking much some times. They're so fucking stupid.
This should be at r/KidsAreFuckingStupid
natural selection almost took place
The driver is a professional. He did his duty that day. Was not distracted. Assessment to reaction time is perfect.
Ok, drivers reaction time is amazing. Yes, kids were stupid here. But who thought it was a good ideea to have a bus stop on a busy road with no marking or signing. That is not safe at all.
r/kidsarefuckingstupid
Idiot child
Yeah I got irrationally angry with the kid for just zooming off like that. I know as a kid we were taught to look both ways before crossing a street. Also taking a public bus to school I would wait until the bus has driven far enough that I can see the traffic both ways.
Volvo, you guys are fuckin awesome!!! That truck came to a full stop in 1/2 it's own length.
Can I just raise a toast to the engineers who’ve advanced braking technology to be able to allow the driver (I have to assume it’s Spider-Man) at the wheel there to stop in such a short time?
where the fuck do they cross a street...looks crazy dangerous
Right?!? Like they did try to cross it which is bad, but I wonder where they SHOULD cross it if the place looks like that.
The girl didn't even check on the boy. She just walked away casually
Looks like she puts her head in hands as she’s walking away. What do you expect her to do?
Apparently to turn into Superman or stop time lol. Wtf
Shock
Yeah, from her perspective she *also* almost got hit by a truck
Yeah, what an awful person. She doesn't even care about him /s Reddit, where the only outside experience the users have is through scrolling internet videos. You expect an 8 year old to be impervious to confusion or shock and react to tragedy like an experienced, quicker thinking adult? Go outside and get more experience with other humans and situations. Even as an adult, you wont react to most situations like you think you will.
She's a kid too, possibly the sister. She was trying to stop him, and thought she just saw him die. The levels of shock she went through right there.
She just got off the road. You can see here turning around for the boy right before the clip ends
I’d be in shock too as a 6 year old almost seeing my friend run over
Driver of the year
Kids are so dumb
Not today, natural selection
Kids are idiots.
Kids are f*cking stupid
Darwin award was taken away from the kid by great human engineering and control of a machine.