Bus Crash in Georgia

crazytom · October 31, 2009, 08:06:02 AM

Just now watching CNN...they are reporting a breaking story....Atour bus full of college kids headed to a football game in Georgia...flipped on the freeway....18 ambulances....one still under bus....thats all i know...figured yall want to know...thanks

crazytom · October 31, 2009, 08:11:14 AM

I-75 south of Atlanta...Henry county....students from morehouse college...story still sketchy

crazytom · October 31, 2009, 08:13:43 AM

Fortunately only a few injuries so far....1 person believed to be trapped....bus landed on its side approx 50' from interstate....i-75 shut down for a while....

wildbob24 · October 31, 2009, 09:23:49 AM

Here's a link with photos:

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/21485374/detail.html

Lonnie time to go · October 31, 2009, 09:36:53 AM

Amazed there are not more serious injuries The bus sure did look rough

DebDav · October 31, 2009, 10:21:36 AM

I still want to crash in a bus rather than a stick and staple coach. That bus held up extraordinarily well.

robertglines1 · October 31, 2009, 11:53:27 AM

It still looks like a bus if it were sticks & staples they might as well call a street sweeper.

Len Silva · October 31, 2009, 12:33:39 PM

From the looks of the roof, it did a complete roll over.

cody · October 31, 2009, 12:42:51 PM

I think I know that bus, Superior coach is a local bus company up here but I can't imagine what they would be doing that far away. Bob Houle runs it out of Hancock a few miles from us, he does a lot of vegas charters and stuff like that, it's got to be a different company but what are the odds of having the same name and identical buses.

Kwajdiver · October 31, 2009, 01:17:01 PM

Is this a lesson for all of us. It may be better to hit something, rather than go off the road?

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Bill

cody · October 31, 2009, 01:26:20 PM

The article didn't say where the bus was from does anyone have any information on that? it sure looks like one I know.

Busted Knuckle · October 31, 2009, 01:44:58 PM

Quote from: cody on October 31, 2009, 12:42:51 PM
I think I know that bus, Superior coach is a local bus company up here but I can't imagine what they would be doing that far away. Bob Houle runs it out of Hancock a few miles from us, he does a lot of vegas charters and stuff like that, it's got to be a different company but what are the odds of having the same name and identical buses.

Cody I believe it is probably an Atlanta area based bus. Morehouse & Spelman are Atlanta Colleges.

Of course the other possibility is that Bob sold it without removing his lettering and the buyer was still running it that way! (I personally know of 2 bad bus wrecks where that was the case! And of course the ex-owners usually have to spend mega $ on legal fees proving they had no connection!)

One of the cases I know of the bus still had Bill's plates, company name, all the reg. papers etc. in it and the un-transferred signed title in it! Last I heard the rouge Mexican-American operator was still at large and Bill was still fighting lawsuits 4 yrs after that! (Bill had signed the title and taken the cash while laying in the hospital in very bad health and no insurance! The accident ruined his business, reputation, and livelyhood and caused him to lose everything he and his wife had ever worked for including 3 other buses, home, & farm.

BK

buswarrior · October 31, 2009, 06:40:33 PM

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

gumpy · October 31, 2009, 07:27:09 PM

Quote from: Len Silva on October 31, 2009, 12:33:39 PM
From the looks of the roof, it did a complete roll over.

I thought that at first, too, but now I don't think so. That would mean it came back up on it's wheels and then rolled onto the side again.

I think it was pushing the wet mud and grass as it slid down the hill and it splashed up on there. The roof really didn't look damaged, other than pushed to one side.

buswarrior · October 31, 2009, 07:41:12 PM

Yes, 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