Yutong Coach Crash in IoW

[Thames99]

This article has pictures and an account of a runaway coach at an Isle of Wight hotel. No one was hurt and there were no passengers or the driver in it at the time.

Coach crash in car park of popular seaside hotel

We're bringing live updates as a coach has crashed in the car park of an Isle of Wight hotel.

www.countypress.co.uk

According to the article it was parked and it was fortunate that the van and car it ran into prevented it from going further downhill. It seems surprising that a hand brake could fail on a brand new vehicle.

 

[Gloster]

Just shows you how exciting life is on this island: rolling news for nearly twenty-four hours. Elsewhere it was described as carnage. Carnage? I see no dead or maimed. It was a GT12 type.

 

[Titfield]

Simon Willis the hotel manager should, as Basil Fawlty (himself a hotel manager) once advised Sybil, appear on Mastermind. Special Subject The Bleeding Obvious.

 

[Ginge_dave]

This article has pictures and an account of a runaway coach at an Isle of Wight hotel. No one was hurt and there were no passengers or the driver in it at the time.

Coach crash in car park of popular seaside hotel

We're bringing live updates as a coach has crashed in the car park of an Isle of Wight hotel.

www.countypress.co.uk

According to the article it was parked and it was fortunate that the van and car it ran into prevented it from going further downhill. It seems surprising that a hand brake could fail on a brand new vehicle.

Air brakes are designed to lock on failure…no air. They lock on.

Maybe someone didn’t lock on the brake handle….be amazed if brake system totally failed (the wonderful often amazes us though)

 

[Dfatcontroller]

Who operates the coach?

 

[Teds]

It may not be relevant but I was told of an instance where the driver left the coach in auto-hold which is an electric brake - and turned off the master switch. The coach then rolled slowly backwards until it hit a building. Around £80,000 in damage (coach and building together).

 

[Eyersey468]

It may not be relevant but I was told of an instance where the driver left the coach in auto-hold which is an electric brake - and turned off the master switch. The coach then rolled slowly backwards until it hit a building. Around £80,000 in damage (coach and building together).

I'm surprised the coach didn't automatically put the parking brake on, our new Scanias if left on auto hold when you switch the engine off automatically put the parking brake on