Been there, done that.
Within a couple of weeks passing my test I was driving a mate back to school.

We were driving down a 40 mph dual carriageway (the start of the West road coming from Ponteland if you're interested) a bus pulls out of the recessed bus stop but only a little way.

I think wtf is he doing? I get annoyed and move to overtake him.

Turns out that he'd stopped because the lights of the pedestrian crossing had turned red. The bus was obscuring my view of the lights so I didn't know.

I was lucky to have seen the people crossing when I did because I just managed to stop in time with screeching tyres and bit if skidding.

I had to go park up in a pub car park afterwards to calm down for a while.

So, the lesson here is to be much more cautious when driving and to keep all your attention on the road and the pedestrians at al times. I've never forgotten this and have yet to have an accident.

I'm quite glad I had that scare when I was a new driver, other wise I think things might have been a lot worse.
(Shippy likes linebreaks and doesn't care what you think, Wed 29 Apr 2009, 8:51, Reply)