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ATU Seattle Safety Officer: Change In Design Can Curb Buses’ Blind Spot

By SARAH DORSEY
Posted 2/23/15

“I started to represent people who were dedicated, excellent drivers, with decades of perfect records,” Amalgamated Transit Union Safety Specialist Brian Sherlock said of his decision years ago to look more closely at the way buses’ blind spots can trip up drivers.

“They’d say, ‘I wasn’t diddling around, I wasn’t chatting with a passenger...I was paying attention. And I never saw her. I never knew until I heard the thump.’”

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