Bus Blind Spots

At a visit to the First Bus Depot on King Street we met with to bus drivers, one who is an experienced bus driving instructor. After briefing them with the project they have one extremely important piece of information which you only realise in the Driver’s seat, so we found out for ourselves.
Blind spots are a major issue for a bus driver. Think of the blind spots while driving a car, but with a look over your shoulder they can be checked. However in a bus this is imposable. Looking over your shoulder you are met with a panel of the bus, there is no glass window. This means there is a huge blind spot out both sides of the bus. Bellow is an image showing the scale of the blind spot.


Another major blind spot in busses are directly in front of the bus. With a gap that would easily fit a child. The blind spot is increased even more in a coach. Further still at the rear of busses, bus drivers are completely none the wiser what is going on because they can’t see anything.



As accidents are occurring when children are running out in front and behind busses could something be done to stop this, using the spaces in the blind spots and stopping children from walking and running there?