They got up and walked away, so I guess they're okay. It's certainly not the way I would (and did not) drop my kids off at school.

It's hard to tell if it is real or staged. Both "kids" did pretty good "landings" on the road, and then looked around for traffic BEFORE scurrying off the road. Then when the "mother" gets out of the car to go to the "kids", she looks kinda weird.

Maybe I'm just being too critical.

It wasn't me.

I grew up in the days when we had to walk to school.  
No-one was ever dropped off by car.

I always rode my bike. It has never let me down. 

That's pic looks like it was taken at the "Devils Marbles" NT, by the looks of it!

I was coming homer from school in the school bus, when a Road Train passed us and threw a rock (not a stone) at the windscreen! The bus driver put his hand in front of his face, but did not turn away, I dived onto the floor between my seat and the seat in front of me. The bus driver had the webbing between some of his fingers sliced through, and his hands were very bloody, he also had cuts in his face and head. So he saved us by maintaining control of the bus until he had pulled over to the side of the road. My friend, on the seat in front of me, was struck in the neck by the glass and was bleeding a lot. One girl got struck in her eye (and I mean her eyeball, not her eyelid) by the glass, but it was tiny and did not blind her in that eye. Other kids got cuts from the shattered windscreen as well, so it really was a bloody mess inside the bus. I only had bits of glass stuck in my hair and on my clothes. Phew! It was not a pleasant experience, but at least I was not hurt. The other two school buses from the RAAF Base stopped, and we were all transferred to them for the rest of the trip back to the base, including our driver. Our bus was left on the side of the road and was picked up by another driver later on. Glass was spread from the front of the bus all the way to the back. I couldn't believe that one windscreen had so much glass. It was unbelievable.

So was I afraid of those Road Trains? Yes. You betcha I was! I never wanted one of those things passing me when I was riding my bike on the the Stuart Highway. I did ride my bike on that road a lot, but if I saw a Road Train coming, I was off into the bushes quick smart!

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The bus driver did what he had to do to save the bus and everyone on it. He's a hero.

The Stuart Highway was wide enough for two cars to remain on the bitumen when passing each other, but when a Road Train came, all other vehicles got off the road as far as possible, to leave it for the Road Train, but the last trailer was swaying left and right and would often go off the bitumen. They were notorious for throw stones and gravel (and the occasional rock) at other vehicles because of that. Imaging them passing each other going in opposite directions? S C A R Y !

CoolP wrote on Oct 16^th, 2013 at 5:53pm:


They pull into Port Hedland doing 5mph.
I can confirm you can get out of the car and sit by the road and consume 8 cans of beer whilst waiting at the crossing.