Bus versus Brisge

[Oracle]

Local radio says that a DD bus hit a railway vbridge in the Yapton area near Barnham and lost its roof.

 

[Turbostar]

Thought that's what usually happens when a bus argues with a bridge? lol :-P

Mart

 

[paul1609]

It was a Rail Replacement Double Decker and the bridge is underneath Barnham Station (Yapton Rd). Apparently the roof is right off. The Road is still closed. Dont know if anybody was hurt.

 

[yorkie]

It was a Rail Replacement Double Decker and the bridge is underneath Barnham Station (Yapton Rd). Apparently the roof is right off. The Road is still closed. Dont know if anybody was hurt.

It's odd how passengers who pay for a rail ticket and then get a rail replacement service get a vastly less safe service that has the following safety disbenefits:
1) Drivers do not require any route knowledge whatsoever
2) Drivers may, and often do, ask passengers for directions
3) Vehicles regularly go 'out of guage' and hit lineside (Err, I mean roadside) obstructions
4) Inferior crashworthiness. Oddly, there are rules preventing trains from running on the main line that are infinitely more crashworthy than buses that are allowed to operate.
5) Drivers that require very little training in comparison to train drivers

And that's before you come to the other undesirable elements such as leaving early, and generally being crap.

I hope everyone is alright, and I hope that there is an investigation as thorough as if it was a train incident. That means the road should be closed for a week, and I expect to see an interim report on the internet in a couple of days. If it was a sane world, drivers would require route knowledge, but sadly they don't. If they did this would not have happened! But, of course, as it was a road incident, the 'powers that be' will have no desire to prevent it happening again. Shameful.

 

[Ascot]

It's odd how passengers who pay for a rail ticket and then get a rail replacement service get a vastly less safe service that has the following safety disbenefits:
1) Drivers do not require any route knowledge whatsoever
2) Drivers may, and often do, ask passengers for directions
3) Vehicles regularly go 'out of guage' and hit lineside (Err, I mean roadside) obstructions
4) Inferior crashworthiness. Oddly, there are rules preventing trains from running on the main line that are infinitely more crashworthy than buses that are allowed to operate.
5) Drivers that require very little training in comparison to train drivers

And that's before you come to the other undesirable elements such as leaving early, and generally being crap.

I hope everyone is alright, and I hope that there is an investigation as thorough as if it was a train incident. That means the road should be closed for a week, and I expect to see an interim report on the internet in a couple of days. If it was a sane world, drivers would require route knowledge, but sadly they don't. If they did this would not have happened! But, of course, as it was a road incident, the 'powers that be' will have no desire to prevent it happening again. Shameful.

Yeah i had one from Newport to Hereford who had to ask for directions.

 

[87015]

And that's before you come to the other undesirable elements such as leaving early, and generally being crap.

Hang on, to leave early its actually got to turn up!
At least they have the bonus of being totally free! At least whenever i've turned up.

 

[paul1609]

Fortunately it was empty!,
http://theargus.co.uk/display.var.1268116.0.bus_roof_ripped_off_in_crash.php