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05-20-2017, 07:29 AM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,764
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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WTF Collision
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05-20-2017, 09:14 AM
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Colorado
Posts: 2,362
Year: 1993
Coachwork: bluebird
Engine: 5.9 Cummins, Allison AT1545
Rated Cap: 2
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wow!
i bet that little turd in the back seat stops flipping off cars.
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05-20-2017, 09:59 AM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Columbus Ohio
Posts: 18,846
Year: 1991
Coachwork: Carpenter
Chassis: International 3800
Engine: DTA360 / MT643
Rated Cap: 7 Row Handicap
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wowsers!! where was that at?
-Christopher
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05-20-2017, 10:02 AM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Houston, Texas
Posts: 8,462
Year: 1946
Coachwork: Chevrolet/Wayne
Chassis: 1- 1/2 ton
Engine: Cummins 4BT
Rated Cap: 15
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WTF indeed!? Maybe the government is running more Philadelphia experiments.
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05-20-2017, 10:19 AM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Willamina, Oregon
Posts: 6,409
Coachwork: 97 Bluebird TC1000 5.9
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I still don't see how two vehicles could have a butt crash.
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Nobody's Business
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05-20-2017, 11:03 AM
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Vacaville, Ca
Posts: 1,634
Year: 1988
Coachwork: Crown / Pusher
Engine: 8.3 Cummins
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You gotta get up pretty early in the morning to accomplish that.
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05-20-2017, 11:42 AM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Willamina, Oregon
Posts: 6,409
Coachwork: 97 Bluebird TC1000 5.9
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That'll teach those cool kids that always sit in the back seat.
Sorry, but I'm still having trouble visualizing how the back of a pickup truck got shoved through the back end of a bus.
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Nobody's Business
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05-20-2017, 12:17 PM
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
Posts: 855
Year: 2002
Coachwork: Blue Bird
Chassis: All American
Engine: Cummins 8.3/Allison MD3060
Rated Cap: 84
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Robin97396
That'll teach those cool kids that always sit in the back seat.
Sorry, but I'm still having trouble visualizing how the back of a pickup truck got shoved through the back end of a bus.
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I've been thinking about this all day, myself.
The only thing I've come up with that seems even semi-plausible is the pickup falling off the back of a car carrier trailer which was passing at a much higher speed than the bus was traveling.
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05-20-2017, 12:34 PM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Willamina, Oregon
Posts: 6,409
Coachwork: 97 Bluebird TC1000 5.9
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That sounds completely almost plausible.
I was thinking someone had a pickup cannon and shot the truck into the back of the bus, because of that kid flipping everyone off.
A rear end to rear end collision seems tough enough. Why that pickup wasn't shoved under the bus is beyond me. It's like the bus backed into the pickup on a loading dock.
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Nobody's Business
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05-20-2017, 01:06 PM
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Skoolie
Join Date: Dec 2016
Posts: 138
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I was thinking Robbie Knievel came out of retirement.
WTF indeed.
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05-20-2017, 01:50 PM
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Mini-Skoolie
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Northern California (for now)
Posts: 55
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OK, so pickup (PU) tries to pass school bus on a two lane road but doesn't see an oncoming vehicle. PU slams on brakes, causes it to spin and the rear end plows into the rear of the school bus. PU becomes embedded into the side of the school bus which ends up carrying the PU and it's idiot driver.
Yep, that's it! Only one problem, it's a divided highway with both lanes in the same direction. Oh well... How the heck did this happen?
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05-20-2017, 03:16 PM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,764
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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All I know is it was here in FL, and the truck "fell" on the bus?!
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05-20-2017, 03:25 PM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Willamina, Oregon
Posts: 6,409
Coachwork: 97 Bluebird TC1000 5.9
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Oh, so there's obviously a ramp involved. So he jumped off a ramp backwards into the rear of a bus that stopped momentarily. Sounds complicated. Needs a back story.
This guy was jumping his truck off a ramp at high speeds backwards, while showing off to the kids at the bus stop. That's why he hit the bus.
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Nobody's Business
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05-20-2017, 03:27 PM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,764
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Robin97396
Oh, so there's obviously a ramp involved. So he jumped off a ramp backwards into the rear of a bus that stopped momentarily. Sounds complicated. Needs a back story.
This guy was jumping his truck off a ramp at high speeds backwards, while showing off to the kids at the bus stop. That's why he hit the bus.
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IDK, but lately its all the pickup truck kids showing off or texting that seem to be on collision courses with buses.
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05-20-2017, 05:14 PM
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Nov 2015
Location: Billings, MT
Posts: 1,269
Year: 2003
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: HDX
Engine: Cat C7
Rated Cap: 84 passenger
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Robin97396
That'll teach those cool kids that always sit in the back seat.
Sorry, but I'm still having trouble visualizing how the back of a pickup truck got shoved through the back end of a bus.
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Physics experiment aside, was it a high-speed rear-end to rear-end collision because the pickup tried a high-speed U-turn?
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05-20-2017, 05:15 PM
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Nov 2015
Location: Billings, MT
Posts: 1,269
Year: 2003
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: HDX
Engine: Cat C7
Rated Cap: 84 passenger
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Hello? State Farm Insurance? You won't believe this, but...
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05-20-2017, 05:16 PM
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Picton,Ont, Can.
Posts: 1,956
Year: 1997
Coachwork: Bluebird
Chassis: GMC
Engine: Cat 3116
Rated Cap: 72
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Looks like a 4 lane hwy with a median. Could the pickup going the opposite direction to the bus, launched itself through the median and just happened to find the bus, while airborn. Haven't had to try that yet but drivers do fall asleep or have other medical emergencies etc.
Luckily it was only a Ford but the bus owner could be one of us.
It really sucks when your day goes bad that way!
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05-20-2017, 07:43 PM
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: NY
Posts: 774
Year: 2002
Coachwork: International
Engine: dt466
Rated Cap: 65C-43A
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BlackJohn
Luckily it was only a Ford ... that way!
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Hehehe
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05-20-2017, 07:48 PM
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Colorado
Posts: 2,362
Year: 1993
Coachwork: bluebird
Engine: 5.9 Cummins, Allison AT1545
Rated Cap: 2
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right before this happened....
the driver says to to the passenger "hold my beer and watch this!"
if i were to tender a theory it would be like a little dog and the fat lady.
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05-20-2017, 07:49 PM
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: Orange County, CA
Posts: 1,363
Year: 1990
Coachwork: Crown, integral. (With 2kW of tiltable solar)
Chassis: Crown Supercoach II (rear engine)
Engine: Detroit 6V92TAC, DDEC 2, Jake brake, Allison HT740
Rated Cap: 37,400 lbs GVWR
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The bus's crushed roof and rear cap makes me think the PU truck was at the front of a car carrier and facing backwards. Car carrier suddenly braked to avoid hitting bus just ahead of it, PU wasn't secured well enough, and gravity and the immutable laws of physics then took over. If this happened, was the car carrier's driver not paying attention (on a goddamned effing cellphone, or playing with the "infotainment system", or otherwise acting like most idiot drivers these days), or what? How else would one not see a bright yellow bus directly ahead of you?
When I drive I'm more worried about some damn fool distracted or unfocused driver behind me more than anything else. I can take care of what's in front of me, but behind me is less within my control. My car and now my bus have very bright European rear fog lights (the high-intensity red beam aimed straight at a following driver's eyes), and I've repurposed my red rear flashers as extra high-mount brake lights, but there's nothing more I can do!
Or maybe it fell off an overpass bridge, like manna from heaven. Would that then be considered an act of god, and therefore not covered by insurance?
Enquiring minds need to know.
John
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