Disclaimer, Consent and Release

By facilitating the creation and dissemination of a Car Pool List, neither St Joseph High School nor the Diocese of Bridgeport are offering a car pool service, but are instead making available a potential resource for our students and their families. It is therefore left to each participant in any car pool arising from the Car Pool List to make an independent assessment of the appropriateness and safety of participating in such a car pool.

Neither St Joseph High School nor the Diocese of Bridgeport are responsible for ensuring the qualifications, competency, training, licensing, driving record, driving habits or insurance coverage of any drivers or chaperones identified on the Car Pool List.

Neither St Joseph High School nor the Diocese of Bridgeport are responsible for ensuring that vehicles of participants are roadworthy or properly insured. St Joseph High School and the Diocese of Bridgeport expressly represent that compliance with the Diocesan Virtus program is not a condition of inclusion on the Car Pool List and therefore they are not responsible for ensuring that any drivers or chaperones identified on the Car Pool List have undergone Virtus training and have consented to these protocols. In addition, please read carefully the following consent, disclaimer and release before applying for inclusion on the Car Pool List. 

The adult completing the carpool request form acknowledges, on their own behalf ad on behalf of the minor child that there are risks he or she voluntarily assumes in participating in a car pool, some of which are referred to in this document. Neither St Joseph High School nor the Diocese of Bridgeport assumes any liability whatsoever in connection with any car pool arising from the Car Pool List.

The adult completing the carpool request form, on their own behalf and on behalf of the minor child, releases St Joseph high School and the Diocese of Bridgeport form all liability for loss or damage to any vehicle and/or its contents, or for injury to or death of any person, which arises in the course of, or in connection with, or as a result of any car pool arising from the Car Pool List including, without limitation, vehicle accidents, driving infractions and incidents involving car pool participants.