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| Bob MacIsaac (Wildbob24)
Registered Member Username: Wildbob24 Post Number: 56 Registered: 5-2007 Posted From: 67.34.63.44  Rating: N/A |
Just happened this morning, south of Atlanta: http://www.wsbtv.com/news/21485374/detail.html | ||
| John and Barb Tesser (Bigrigger)
Registered Member Username: Bigrigger Post Number: 278 Registered: 9-2007 Posted From: 24.183.21.246  Rating: N/A |
Says a lot for the safety of busses that no one was killed or even had life threatening injuries. The Lord was watching over those kids today. | ||
| Buswarrior (Buswarrior)
Registered Member Username: Buswarrior Post Number: 1730 Registered: 12-2000 Posted From: 76.68.120.136  Rating: N/A |
Very fortunate that it was an older MCI, I doubt the new ones will stay together in a barrel roll like that one did. Definitely Divine intervention, statistically, someone should have snapped their neck... If you get cut off, CHOOSE to hit the culprit, do not REACT, swerving a bus at speed. It doesn't work, this incident shows the potential results. If it heads into the ditch, DRIVE it there, steer between the trees and stay in control. Trying to turn back out onto the road and sliding the steer tires is what helps roll you over. You've already screwed up, best to keep the greasy side down, easier to tow out, better chances for survival, for both the driver and passengers. happy coaching! buswarrior | ||
| Nellie Wilson (Vivianellie)
Registered Member Username: Vivianellie Post Number: 376 Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 75.178.92.43  Rating: N/A |
What a shame... But a real testament to MCI toughness (can you tell I'm a fan?). And, boy, BW is so right! I try to steer clear of everyone... but cut me off, Pal, I ain't swervin'! And in true Jeff Gordon tradition, not gonna cook the binders either. Nellie Wilson | ||
| Buswarrior (Buswarrior)
Registered Member Username: Buswarrior Post Number: 1733 Registered: 12-2000 Posted From: 76.68.120.136 Rating: N/A |
In going back and looking at the pics more closely, the ones showing any of the slide from the roadway to the resting place, this looks like it flopped over as it came to a stop, which is a common end to a ditch slide in a coach. The tear up of the grass would not have been consistent as the pics show, if it had rolled. The deformation of the roof will be due to the pull of the roof trusses from the sideways deformation of the sidewalls. And yes, the mud can get up that high. In being reminded, some buddies of mine put a big Oldsmobile sideways into the median on ice off the I75 in Ohio one winter on their "young men to Florida adventure", the amount of mud that ended up on the roof of the car looked like it had been put there with a shovel. happy coaching! buswarrior |