Picture - Eagle Rolls Over In Bad Weather

[DKO]

Gospel Singer Tim Greene's bus rolled over in High winds this week. It is a miracle the two people aboard survived.





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[Zeroclearance]

From reports it says that he was ejected thru the windshield>> with troopers finding him trapped under the bus.  They said that "he was blessed"

He said that he was fighting the winds and was blown over to the shoulder > it was soft and the bus rolled.

[buswarrior]

Well, there's a big difference between catching a soft shoulder and being blown over.

Notice how the view of the interior shows things coming adrift.

Fasten your conversion bits like it has to roll over...

happy coaching!
buswarrior

[RJ]

Dunno who's coach this is, but this Prevost LaMirage got flipped & rolled by the tornado that swept thru Branson, MO last week.  He was parked in a WalMart parking lot when the storm hit.  Walked away with just a few scratches.  Lucky guy!

[artvonne]

  Ive seen seat pedestals bolted to the wood floor with nothing underneath but some large washers. Cabinets screwed to the floor and wood paneling. Refrigerators simply pushed back within a wall cavity hoping gravity alone will keep it there. Dinette tables and chairs free standing. If you look, both these Buses remained fairly intact, structurally, but all the interior junk broke loose.

  BW should be heard loudly here, that stuff needs to be as secure as anything in an airliner, if not more so. Cabinets should be fastened to the outer wall steel tubing securely enough to take a major impact or rollover. Any through bolts in the floor should be backed with large backing plates or securely fastened into original Bus structure. Same with seat pedestals. A 200 pound man belted into a seat, a 10 G deceleration will create more than a ton of torque at the seat pedestal, and will rip it right out of the floor if all thats underneath is some fat washers. And 10G is not much more than a light impact.

  And having the seats secure wont be much help when a 200 pound fridge full of food starts flying toward you. Or a loose (unbelted) passenger.

  A guy I knew learned that lesson real well. He was hauling some Triumph motorcycles back to Wisconsin in his Van. He blew a tire and went off the road into the ditch. None of the bikes were tied down so they came at him, one impaling its handlebar through his chest. He was pretty religious about tying things down after that.

[gus]

What is this morbid obsession with bus accidents?

[buswarrior]

Slow news day?

There go I but for the grace of a deity whom I fail to follow closely?

happy coaching!
buswarrior

[belfert]

I think part of the reason people bring up bus accidents here is so folks can learn from them.

I also think it is kinda like a skydiving forum.  I expect at a skydiving forum skydiving accidents get brought up too.

[artvonne]

What is this morbid obsession with bus accidents?

  If it saves one life, or one Bus, I think its worth posting every one we come across. Plus the less it happens, the less the rest of the leftist world looks for something to regulate.

[kyle4501]

I have heard people on these boards say they don't need to anchor things down because they don't drive like that.
I wouldn't think anyone puts a bunch of time into building one of these just to crash it on purpose!


Anchor EVERYTHING down as though you life depended on it - some day, it just might.

[belfert]

I know I need to do a better job anchoring things.  My friends like to place things on the floor that would make nice missiles in an accident.  I need to do something about my overheads as they are just wire closet shelving screwed to the frame of the bus.  Everything would fly off in a rollover or something.  One of the overheads has no front bulkhead and stuff poured off when we had to brake hard to avoid a cow in the road last fall.

[opus]

What is it with people not wearing seat belts?

[RJ]

What is it with people not wearing seat belts?

Same reason busnuts don't do proper pre-trip inspections?

[opus]

Same reason busnuts don't do proper pre-trip inspections?

Silly people.

[Ericbsc]

I've seen some busses rolling down the road on 10-15 year old tires, with brakes that were last adjusted in 1986. At that point bolting anything down is probably a waste!!LOL