• @[email protected]
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    1231 month ago

    This seems a bit odd.

    A) Nobody knows where or when this crash happened, which supposedly involved a school bus hitting her at 110km/hour? I feel like that would make some news.

    B) It’s an Instagram post with only a single picture that looks… questionable??

    I’m wondering if she is trying to disappear after threats were made to her. Or maybe this is a real thing that didn’t make the news because the royals were involved and had it hidden.

    • AmidFuror
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      Not sure about the pic being questionable. Hard to look up local news about the incident without knowing the city where it happened. Searches with her name only call up versions of this story. If there were no school children on board it probably wouldn’t make the news otherwise.

      There are crashes from 2024 and 2022 which involved children.

      Looks like we just have to wait to see the story get fleshed out.

      Edit: She lives in north Perth. There was a school bus crash reported on March 28 with no injuries. Other recent crashes seem to be other types of buses.

      Second Edit: The BBC has also been looking into it and found no matching incidents (so far). Starting to seem like some info is twisted. Her spokesperson did not confirm the terminal diagnosis.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 month ago

      Very odd.

      Add to that not being able to confirm what medical facility she is in.

      Maybe she already had a fall out of a second story window but sometime didn’t get the cover story correct.

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    How on earth would they know she has 4 days to live? The article says renal failure. Dialysis is a thing. Seems vague and fishy.

  • @[email protected]
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    331 month ago

    Would it be in poor taste to suggest the bus driver who caused the crash was possibly paid or otherwise coerced to do so? Accidents happen, to anyone, but still…

    • @[email protected]
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      141 month ago

      Why was a school bus going 68mph? Especially in the UK where much less time is spent on freeways.

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          Yea I think its likely it happened there as the speed was given in kph, we still mostly use mph in the UK and I could be wrong as I’m not a parent but I’m not aware of “school buses” really being a thing here. We didn’t have them when I was a kid outside of coach services being brought in for school trips but that was quite some time ago.

          • @[email protected]
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            21 month ago

            Aren’t most of y’all’s schools typically within walking distance in your neighborhoods?

              • @[email protected]
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                11 month ago

                Fair enough, I only ask because from everything I’ve seen if the UK, towns/villages and even smaller cities seem to be a lot more condensed and walkable than here in the states.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 month ago

        I dunno. Growing up in the 1980s, my school bus drivers did stuff that should have landed them in prison.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 month ago

        I don’t live in the UK but I do drive school bus and we go up to 70 on the freeway. Some districts limit to 60 but that can very often be more dangerous because of the traffic around.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 month ago

          Is the M1 not considered a freeway? I’ve never driven in the UK, only trains everywhere.

          • @[email protected]
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            21 month ago

            I’ve only heard them called motorways in the UK. It’s obviously pretty close to equivalent of course.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 month ago

        It would be a powerful message to other would-be whistleblowers. “It might take a decade but if you oppose us, you will eventually pay the ultimate price”.

    • AmidFuror
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      41 month ago

      It’s in poor taste to speculate about blame with very little information.

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    Note for medical accuracy: often, renal failure can be compensated for with dialysis and life prolonged until a transplant is found.

    After a trauma like a car crash, there might be other issues that prevent some treatment, however.

    Basically, despite the headline, I will say that I hope she lives and finds a donor.

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    So she’s dying and still finds it important to share all this on social media. We are doomed as species.

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      Some people have noted that it’s very likely she doesn’t have “4 days to live”. It’s more likely she’s heavily on pain meds and was told “if you don’t start dialysis or get a kidney transplant, you will die in 4 days” and in her state misheard it. She’s a young healthy person and renal failure doesn’t work like that.