throwawayamd14 t1_jdhql94 wrote on March 24, 2023 at 2:09 PM

The hazard lights come on before the sign comes out for buses, but as the sign is coming out you make no attempt to reduce your speed and try to stop and you pass through the stop sign without even reducing speed.

Also, as another commenter said in the legal advice forum (where you deleted the post), the car ahead of you DID come to a full stop. This implies that you were either traveling too fast or not paying attention

You state that the van was blocking you from seeing the bus but then at the same time you state the bus didn’t turn on their hazard lights.

How can you see that the hazard lights are NOT on if you can’t see the bus? You are being dishonest one way or the other

MarmalAIDs OP t1_jdhs0ny wrote on March 24, 2023 at 2:19 PM

My brake lights were on, I was braking. I started slowing as the result of the van before seeing the bus behind them. For all I know they couldve been turning without a turn signal before the bus was there

throwawayamd14 t1_jdhsx02 wrote on March 24, 2023 at 2:25 PM

Well if you couldn’t see the bus then why did you say the bus hazards weren’t on?

Also, you did not slow down. That is quite obvious in the video

MarmalAIDs OP t1_jdhtzsi wrote on March 24, 2023 at 2:32 PM

Slower than i was going from the obscures view behind the van, and my brake lights are on till I eventually passed the bus. I sure didnt slam on the breaks within the 1-2 meters from the front of the van as I couldnt even see what the van was stopping for. As posted below, I was a block away and saw the bus (should add the area before goes downhill slightly, and can see further ahead then when the road flattens out towars where the video takes place.)

Aggravating_Foot_528 t1_jdiw987 wrote on March 24, 2023 at 6:36 PM

Bottom line - it doesn't matter. You went through a bus stop sign and you got a ticket. If you go to court saying your vision was obscured then the court will just tell you that you were going too fast for the conditions.