Journey with Confidence RV GPS App RV Trip Planner RV LIFE Campground Reviews RV Maintenance Take a Speed Test Free 7 Day Trial ×


Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
 
Old 11-09-2024, 10:25 PM   #1
Bus Crazy
 
DeMac's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2020
Location: Florida
Posts: 1,842
Coachwork: Integrated Coach Corp.
Chassis: RE-300 42ft
Engine: 466ci
Rated Cap: 90
Tree Falls Onto Moving School Bus (MS)


“According to Jones, he was just going down the road at about 20 to 25 miles an hour, very slow, and he said all of a sudden, the bus just stopped,” Jones said. “Next thing he knows, he looks back in the rearview mirror, and there’s a tree laying across the center of the bus.”




“We are so thankful no kids were on the bus.” Jones said the bus, which was bought just a few months ago, was a total loss.

Full story here:
Live5News.com/Fallen-Tree-Nearly-Splits-School-Bus-in-Half

__________________
Ceiling: Framing & Electrical Rough-in
Convert Hatch to AC & Roof Patch
🇺🇸 Frederick Douglass: "If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
DeMac is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-10-2024, 07:23 AM   #2
Bus Crazy
 
nikitis's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2023
Location: South Carolina
Posts: 1,812
Year: 1995
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: International 3800
Engine: T444E
Rated Cap: 29
The rear cap is in tact, would make a perfect candidate to make a Noah clone out of this and shorten the drive train. Make a 3 window bus.
nikitis is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-10-2024, 08:16 PM   #3
Bus Nut
 
Join Date: Oct 2019
Location: VA, Clarke & Greene Counties
Posts: 387
Year: 2001
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: VIN = 1T7HR3B2311090770
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: ~72
100% certain . . .

. . . it came nowhere near to splitting it in two. It seems to have stopped about at the top of the channel the ribs are coming up from.




It was excellent it was empty of pax though . . .
TaliaDPerkins is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-18-2024, 09:41 AM   #4
Skoolie
 
Tin Roadtube Vagrant's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2020
Location: Tomahawk, WI
Posts: 210
Year: 2001
Chassis: Chevy Kodiak
Engine: 3126B CAT
Rated Cap: 27K
What a nightmare if that thing was full of kids, thank God. We had one of our local school drivers apparently on a prescription drug that caused her to wig-out and drive off a rock wall reservoir embankment. Completely submerged the bus in seconds. Again, only grace that it was after the kids were dropped and she was on the way home.
Tin Roadtube Vagrant is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

« california laws? | - »
Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are Off
Pingbacks are Off
Refbacks are Off


» Featured Campgrounds

Reviews provided by

Powered by vBadvanced CMPS v3.2.3

All times are GMT -5. The time now is 01:38 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.8 Beta 4
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.