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Yes.

Apparently ended up in internal disciplinary action for the driver, as it was not his first time.

He cut me off, drastically, so that I had to take evasive action. After I beeped, he then flipped me off and continued to do so up until I pulled over and attempted to gain entry to the bus. He mellowed out after that

Didn't get touched.

Did you get hit?

My old housemate got rear ended, with the driver just driving off.

Ended up going through his insurance, but driver disputed it, claiming my housemate pulled into his lane, reducing his stopping distance

I didn't get hit. Stopped pretty close though. Thank gawd for ebc pads! The backs feel like they have flat spots and I'm also getting a lot of vibration from both rear wheels. Might give the insurer the heads up.

Edit: could be in for rotors and rubber if this resulted in some damage. Am also picking up some noise from the wheel bearings. It's too wet to go and check right now but will ASAP.

similar thing happen to me... had to brake hard a swerve.

beeped, got the finger.

took photo on the plates and note of location.

reported it via email.

got a call the next day. complained more and informed them I'll go to the media.

Bitch got fired.

suck shit kunt!

Edited by TTT

lol... You braked hard to avoid an impact (as brakes are designed for) and now something is wrong and you think they should fix it?

lol... You got no chance mate.

sounds like your car was not road worthy if shit is broken from braking hard.

lol. It was 60 down to 0 very quickly,. All I'm saying is something isn't right. They've fixed wheels and tyres before when it;s been their fault. Shall hear back next week and go from there.

If you hit a pothole and damaged a rim, I could understand that council may be liable (stretch but still maybe).

If you are driving along doing 60 and a grandma in a hybrid camry pulls out of her parking spot without looking and you jump on the brakes and do a little ABS skiddie and don't have an accident, but later you feel that the rear brakes are a bit weird, is it her fault?

I can't see how someone you "almost" had an accident with could be liable for something on your car failing when used as intended.

Just means that the now faulty part was not road worthy.

If you give first gear a push and hit the limiter, then the next day you find an oil leak, are you calling up Nissan?

i had a bus pull out of a bus stop and nearly take me out one day. i know you are supposed to give way to them etc, but he didn't put the indicator on until i had just passed the back corner of the bus and then just pulled out straight away.

talking to a mate who used to be a bus driver, or work in the management side of things (can't remember which), he said that drivers are supposed to wait something like 4 seconds after they put the indicator on before they even attempt to pull out. on the other hand though, he also said that with the new LED indicators on a lot of buses these days, they can take up to a few seconds to start to flash after the driver puts the indicator on. so that just screws everything up.

I'm glad to hear no one got hurt.

Happens on the Goldie as well. Every time I see a bus at a bus stop I try immediately to merge into the other (right) lane if there is one as IMO they don't give a sh!t about you.

Yes, I understand they have a schedule to run and considering roadworks, school zones, etc... they are always under pressure to meet that schedule hence, why they are pressed for to make up time but at what costs?

HOWEVER.....just because we need to give way to them doesn't mean that they have to be arrogant and abuse it and more importantly tag innocent motorists because of that.

I'm certain its been brought up many times before with translink, Qld transport and other authorities, but bottom line is that justice does not prevail. In addition to that the public transport is already bad as it is

What they fail to realise is that if there is a severe prang resulting from such a situation NO ONE is better off as the bus will be reported in an accident, the passengers may be injured, the bus gets nowhere, passengers get nowhere, the car will be totaled and the driver will be mangled, and bus driver will be let off with slap on the wrist.

Its really about time theses bus drivers start thinking a bit more about safety of the passengers and other motorist instead of just a f@#king timetable which already late anyways.

There I feel better and I hope you do too.

Edited by Ants

To the people that said t they got the driver fired or disciplinary action taken against them. Do you actually have any proof of this happening other than a letter saying action has been taken?

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