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A detterent for not following posted motor vehicle regulations.
Not following posted motor vehicle regulations is extremely common in Canada and America. 99% of the time, these failures lead to nothing.
You sped a little? Nothing happened.
Took that "yellow" light that was probably red? Nothing happened.
Changed lanes improperly? Nothing happened.
Exited your lane a little bit? Nothing happened.
Every driver commits many infractions that lead to absolutely nothing happening all the time. But that one time it costs lives, livelihoods, or property. The rules exist to protect against that one time. North American society has decided the we will not engineer away failures. We've decided we won't educate away failures. We've decided we will barely enforce failures. Because of this we have forced our hands into operator responsibility and civil liability, and that obliges steep reactions to driving failures that have consequential outcomes.
I am 100% certain there is a bus route along this road. On account of Diego Cardoso de Oliveira, Matilde Ramos Pinto, and their two children being killed waiting for one.
A bus stop that was built on sheer bolts (engineering decision)
A bus stop that was in the recovery zone of the roadway (engineering decision)
On the other side of a curb that allows vehicles to exit the roadway into that recovery zone instead of diverting them into the other lane on a lane departure (engineering decision)
On a road that a driver felt comfortable doing 70mph (112 kph) on when there arw sildwalks and bus stops (engineering decision).
In a vehicle that did not alert the driver of the danger of travelling 70mph (engineering/political decision)