This is what happens when you fire the Union drivers...

[gridlore]

A woman killed Friday on Interstate Highway 280 in San Francisco appears to have been a passenger in an airport commuter van, not a homeless woman struck by the van while attempting to cross the highway, CHP officials said.

CHP Officer Shawn Chase said the driver of the SFO Airporter van admitted this afternoon that the woman was ejected from the side of his vehicle after he swerved to avoid a car merging into his lane.

In previous statements to the CHP, the driver claimed he hit a homeless woman in the 11 a.m. crash.

Chase said interviews with the surviving passengers, who suffered minor injuries including cuts from flying glass, back the revised story.

SFO Airporter was bought by SuperShuttle shortly before they cut all the union drivers. At the time, SFO Airporter stopped operating vans to concentrate on busses, leaving the van business for SS.

A real SS driver would have made sure that the passengers were wearing seatbelts. When the accident occured, would have called it in and not tried to make up some stupid story! The safety of your passengers is the primary concern of every driver!

Comments

[johno.livejournal.com]

How in the hell is someone "ejected" from a moving vehicle due to a swerve???

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

A hard swerve to the left could cause the rear passenger door to pop open, assuming that it hadn't been adequetely closed. If the guest on the middle bench didn't fasten the seatbelt, it's possible for them to go right out the door.

During my time as a driver, I imagined all sorts of disasters that could befall my guests, and worked to avoid them.

[isomeme.livejournal.com]

More to the point, how did the driver ever expect this story to hold up when there were other passengers who witnessed the accident?

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

The UF (unit franchise) drivers we got before the end were dumber than bricks. Considering some of the problems I had with them before my departure, I'm not surprised that the driver thought he could get away with the story.

I once had a driver swear that he was in front of the building for his first pickup. This guy knew that the vans have GPS transmitters, and knew that I could see exactly where he was. When I confrronted him with the fact that he was barely out of the airport, he accused me of hating Asians.

[bunyip.livejournal.com]

How bloody dumb.

[kshandra]

FFS.

I SO don't miss that job. I miss the paychecks, but not the job.

[kshandra]

And my god, if word of this doesn't send poor H back to his therapist....

For those of you playing the home game, H was the (Union) driver involved in the company's last fatality - which I was just reminded of by local events not long ago.

...and the driver was OJ's brother...

[johno.livejournal.com]

http://www.ktvu.com/news/4200302/detail.html?treets=fran&tml=fran_12pm&ts=T&tmi=fran_12pm_4965_02000102152005

Re: ...and the driver was OJ's brother...

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

OK, it was one of their busses. Those things scared me when I was driving.

Simpson, eh?