How Daft Was His Driver?

[cassa333]

Why did he HAVE to get onto school ground I wonder?

Was he just dropping off his snowflake or was there some other reason he simply HAD to drive in?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-41391992/man-jailed-for-hitting-woking-teacher-with-car

[albaqwerty]

no mot, no insurance and a jail term implies it wasn't the first time.

(I like cats and children, much better!! xx)

[chrissa1]

:)) alba.

[dannyk13]

The video in the Mail shows the teacher standing and indicating something to the driver, then the teacher is shown straddled(not sitting) backwards on the bonnet of the car.

[thistles]

Chriss1 I was wondering where cats came into the situation, now I know, Mmmm

[ummmm]

Sqad...parents are NOT allowed to drive into staff car parks so he wasn't being a jobsworth...

[albaqwerty]

sqad, have no idea about sign-posts in English/Welsh schools.
Ours, in my neck of the woods in Scotland, have large-ish signs, staff car park, for use of staff only.
The zig-zag lines also have banner around the railings saying 'parking at school entrance is dangerous to your children'

Some just won't take heed.

[Cloverjo]

As far as I can see, the teacher sits on the car before the driver moves the car.

[EDDIE51]

I think the teacher was on gate duty to stop unauthorised vehicles from going into the school grounds. That is the procedure at a lot of schools now. The teacher was probably just doing her job to protect the children from an aggressive driver. It is probably not the first time that this driver has caused problems at the school.

[dannyk13]

Jo, check my post at 09.49. The Mail video starts earlier that the one in the link.

[anneasquith]

DM. Mowed down ? No. Driver is a plonker Staff carpark, not difficult to understand .

[Cloverjo]

I've had a look at the DM website to try to find its version of the incident. I can't be bothered to search through all its nonsense.

Dannyk//The video in the Mail shows the teacher standing and indicating something to the driver, then the teacher is shown straddled(not sitting) backwards on the bonnet of the car.//

If that is what the DM's video shows then it has edited the crucial bit where the teacher actually sits on the bonnet.

[fiction-factory]

Sorry danny, I don't see any difference between the two videos. Both show the teacher standing in front , talking to the driver, standing with his back to the car then sitting on the bonnet. He seems to me to sit on the bonnet a second before the car moves forward. I am not convinced that he fell back onto it after his calves were nudged.

[chrissa1]

If you look at the link carefully, Cloverjo, the teacher turns his back to the car and then you can see the car move forward slightly, touching the teacher's legs. This knocks him off balance, on to the bonnet of the car.

[fiction-factory]

Ah well. I have watche dit numerous times now and I can't see the car move forward and nudge him - I think he just sits on the bonnet.

I think the teacher was unwise to be so close

[gness]

If the teacher had been knocked off balance he would have instinctively taken his hands out of his pockets...

The car did move forward slightly, which was stupid and cocky, so I see the teacher's response to have been to sit on the bonnet....bit daft and cocky too.....
It was when the car started to move forward with him sitting on the bonnet that he took his hands from his pockets.....x

[Cloverjo]

That's not what I see, chrissa. I'm with f-f.
The car does move a tad, the teacher sits on the bonnet, both are still for at least a second and then the car drives on taking the teacher straddled on the bonnet.

[anotheoldgit]

I hope this clears up matters?

/// Ms Morrish said: 'Mr McCarthy turns his back on the car and feels the bumper on the back of his legs, making him sit down on the bonnet.
'Within seconds the car accelerates, forcing him back onto the bonnet. The next thing he remembers is being spoken to on the ground. ///

[fiction-factory]

Yes, he said that. Doesn't seem that way. If I had sat on the bonnet to make a point and this had then happened i'd have probably said the same thing