Posted on 11/13/2015 6:42:23 PM PST by markomalley
A double-decker tourist bus careened wildly out of control Friday in San Francisco's crowded Union Square, running down a bicyclist, at least two pedestrians and striking several cars before it plowed into scaffolding lining a construction site. Twenty people were hurt, including six critically.
Twelve people suffered minor injuries in the crash that happened just before 3 p.m., San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White said. The others suffered moderate injuries.
Union Square was crowded with shoppers and tourists when, according to eyewitnesses, the bus came roaring across two city blocks at a high rate of speed. It struck several moving vehicles in its path as well as the bicyclist and the two pedestrians, the latter ending up trapped underneath the vehicle after it plowed into the scaffolding.
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What was trapped under the bus ?
Wow.
I don’t think the bus itself caused this. If I were the SF Police, I would suspect the driver as being the cause of the incident.
Prayers for France and the French. The double decker buses in SF are always risky: narrow streets, numerous pedestrians and steep hills. The Union Square area has hills on both Post and Geary. Very sad. The tourists should not pay to sit in a double decker in SF and should just walk from the Trans America building to the St. Francis shrine to China town and then to North Beach for caffee and pizza.
5 bucks on the cyclist.
Even for a person that is grammaratisely challenged and frown upon grammar Nazis I found this hard to read.
Almost as calming as having a Police Chief named Heather
Be Happy I did not write it ...Prayers up
You may be right. At least it wasn’t an SUV.
What is the religion of the bus driver?
“The Union Square area has hills on both Post and Geary.”
I don’t know where you get that information, but neither of these streets are very steep, and less so at Union Square. The streets that intersect these two Powell and Stockton get steep going north, but at Union Square they too are also nearly flat.
“Almost as calming as having a Police Chief named Heather”
Yeah, “Chief” Hayes-White could suck a tennis ball through a garden hose.
“Almost as calming as having a Police Chief named Heather”
Yeah, “Chief” Hayes-White could suck a tennis ball through a garden hose.
Hold on there, that skill has a use and is worth good money.
My first guess would be a DWO
Did the passengers get to finish the tour?
Maybe this was considered one of their hop on/hop off stops.
I’d bet on a bowling ball.
My 11 year old girl doesn’t want to go on a Huey ride, she’d rather go on a double decker bus. I’ll have to show her this article in the morning.
I've ridden helicopters. Safe in comparison to my rides on double decker buses. So me and my wife are riding a double decker bus in NYC. Going alongside Central Park, a bunch of tree branches start whacking passengers on the top side facing the park. Then the voice on the loudspeaker advises people to duck when they see a branch coming. After they've already been hit. Then there was the time a huge downpour deluge of rainwater hit us, and we scrambled to get downstairs through the waterfall cascading down the steps. The driver was still driving like a bat out of hell. Scariest ride since riding a bus in downtown Tijuana Mexico.
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