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Post by WorcesterGray on May 29, 2020 12:27:57 GMT -5
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Post by Sons of Vaval on May 29, 2020 12:32:31 GMT -5
Was Coach Diggins certified to drive the van?
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Post by hchoops on May 29, 2020 12:36:34 GMT -5
Paywall
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on May 29, 2020 12:51:18 GMT -5
Suit was filed in Connecticut. The college has moved to transfer the suit from CT. state court to Federal court, i.e., the Southern District of Florida. Suggests to me that there are other lawsuits and these are being consolidated. Probably the S. D. courthouse at Fort Pierce, which is 10 miles south of Vero Beach.
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Post by bison137 on May 29, 2020 12:56:23 GMT -5
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on May 29, 2020 13:06:05 GMT -5
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Post by timholycross on May 29, 2020 15:32:35 GMT -5
No surprise at all. Just hope the facts stated in the police report are indeed the facts and justice is meted out accordingly.
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Post by bfoley82 on May 29, 2020 19:42:25 GMT -5
Was Coach Diggins certified to drive the van? What certification do you need to drive that? Last I knew, there was none. The school might have a driving certification program but never heard of one for driving a passenger van. |
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Post by Sons of Vaval on May 29, 2020 21:14:01 GMT -5
Was Coach Diggins certified to drive the van? What certification do you need to drive that? Last I knew, there was none. The school might have a driving certification program but never heard of one for driving a passenger van. Not sure. I remember when I was in high school, in order for a teacher / coach to drive a van to and from a game, he needed to have some kind of certificate to do so. I imagine that was done to protect the school from any liabilities like this. |
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Post by bison137 on May 29, 2020 21:38:35 GMT -5
I don't know if HC has any specific rules, but a regular driver only needs a standard driver's license to rent a van of this type from any standard rental car company.
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Post by bfoley82 on May 30, 2020 3:15:56 GMT -5
I don't know if HC has any specific rules, but a regular driver only needs a standard driver's license to rent a van of this type from any standard rental car company. Exactly...a certification program would be run by the college for “insurance” purposes |
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Post by alum on May 30, 2020 6:25:01 GMT -5
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Post by Tom on May 30, 2020 8:24:14 GMT -5
There was no such certification in the old days. A license was good enough. Not HC, but there used to be a van that shuttled between the consortium schools primarily driven by WPI kids. I'm not sure they all had licenses.
The link says to get a certification to drive a campus vehicle. Does a van rented by the college 1200 miles from Worcester count as a "campus vehicle"?
Coach Diggins goes to my parish. As of last weekend, he was still being prayed for by name during video Mass. In these crazy times it might just mean there was no one around to remove his name from a list or it might be that some one out there thinks he still needs our prayers. A little off topic, but since someone started a new accident thread, I thought I'd throw it out there
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Post by rgs318 on May 30, 2020 8:31:14 GMT -5
Prayer is a thing we can all do in times like these.
Driver certification varies y state. When I drove a mini-bus for my high school teams in NJ we needed a bus driver's license (even for a van). The road test was taken in the vehicle you would be driving. There are 2 levels of bus driver licenses in NJ - one for a max of 15 passengers, the other for anything later. The number was based on the ability to carry passengers, not gthe actual number of people on the bus.
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