Not good.
Posted on 10/23/2016 6:41:32 PM PDT by chrisinoc
PALM SPRINGS — A tour bus returning home to Los Angeles from a casino trip plowed into the back of a semi-truck on a California highway early Sunday, killing 13 people and injuring 31 others, authorities said.
A maintenance crew had slowed down traffic on Interstate 10 before the vehicles crashed just north of the desert resort town of Palm Springs, California Highway Patrol Border Division Chief Jim Abele said. The work had gone on for hours without problems, he said.
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Well, at least it's bilaterally symmetrical.
Horrible, tragic.
Horrible. Prayers up.
Not good.
Have you noticed the high number of bus accidents over the last 10 years for groups traveling to and from casinos. It’s uncanny the number I can remember from the last few years.
Driver had to have fallen asleep or lost consciousness, to have plowed into the rear of that tractor-trailer at speed like that.
One of these days they’ll have radar and automatic braking on buses.
This tour bus was driven by the owner or an owner of the tour bus company. They only owned that one bus.
Apparently the driver of the bus made no attempt to stop..no skid marks..plowed right into the big rig and part of the big rig went into the bus causing the majority of the fatalities..prayers for the victims
Or simply not paying attention. The grave yards of full of those folks.
Church van accidents, too. Transportation is the most dangerous activity most of us do. Over 30,000 deaths in the US each year.
Driver had to have fallen asleep or lost consciousness, to have plowed into the rear of that tractor-trailer at speed like that.
Not with road construction in the middle of the night. Tired driver might not have noticed slow down in traffic until it was too late.
Why is a semi trailer more solid, structurally, than a tour bus full of people? The front of the bus is destroyed. The trailer is probably unusable but it’s largely intact other than the rear doors and the walls immediately next to the doors.
Be interesting to see if there are in pre-impact skids.
Somebody above posted that there were not, but I don’t think I saw that in the article.
Depends on what it was full of, I suppose.
>Why is a semi trailer more solid, structurally, than a tour bus full of people?
It’s possible the trailer was designed to haul more weight than the bus. The greens would never advocate all passenger vehicles to be more heavy duty than the trucks that feed them their supplies.
Why is a semi trailer more solid, structurally, than a tour bus full of people?
Because front of a bus has little there to absorb an impact. There is no engine up front, just sheet metal, a windshield, instrument panel etc.
I can remember two specific bus accidents in Texas within the last couple of years where small (1-2 buses) bus companies were involved. I think both had previous safety violations and people were killed.
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