The BUS PLUNGE thread.

[asal]

China bus plunge. Very informative article.

[GranpaP]

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A bus plunged off a mountain highway near Nepal's capital on Wednesday, killing at least 17 Indian pilgrims and injuring 27 others, officials said.
The bus veered off the Prithvi highway about 16 kilometers (10 miles) west of Kathmandu, police officer Tejendra said.
He said the bus fell about 300 meters (1,000 feet) before it slammed into trees at the bottom of a hill

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/art ... ident.html

[bruce]

I see that you have returned and you brought your bus plunge thread with you.

won't you and your boyfriend soon be on your way to brokeback mountain for the summer ?

[Edward]

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[Lochdubh]

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[GranpaP]

At least 23 people were killed when a crowded bus veered off a mountain road and plunged down a gorge in Indian-administered Kashmir, police say.
The accident happened as the driver apparently lost control of the vehicle while turning a bend, police said.
At least two dozen others were injured in the accident. Police and rescue services are at the scene.
Bus crashes are common in India and are often caused by poorly maintained vehicles, overloading and bad driving.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-32687040

[Edward]

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/vermont ... ing-wrong/

[GranpaP]

Thirty-five people died yesterday when a bus plunged off a cliff in China, in the latest deadly traffic incident in the country.
Twenty-five people were killed instantly when the bus fell in Shaanxi province. Ten others died in a hospital, the propaganda office of Chunhua county said in a statement.
The official Xinhua News Agency reported that the bus was carrying 46 passengers and that it fell into a ravine more than 30 metres deep near a forest park on Friday afternoon.

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/ ... liff-china



POKHARA - Five people died and 53 others were injured when bus fell 150 metres down the road at Magartole in Pokhara on Friday. Superintendent of Police Hari Bahadur Pal said many of the injured are in critical state. Thirty-eight of them are undergoing treatment in hospitals in Pokhara while four others, including an eight-month-old boy, were sent to Kathmandu for treatment.
Driver Khil Bahadur Ale Magar, who fled after the accident, later turned himself to the police. He said the bus crashed after the front wheels slipped in a muddy stretch.

http://www.ekantipur.com/2015/03/07/top ... 02495.html

[GranpaP]

One dead, 30 injured as bus plunges into Godavri at Bhadrachalam.
The driver of the bus lost control of the vehicle while crossing the more than five decade old bridge in the afternoon. The bus plunged into the river killing a woman passenger on the spot and injuring all the occupants of the vehicle including its driver.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/t ... 231096.ece

[asal]

More plunging! Will they never drive off a road? Will they never slide? Will they ever drop?

[cc]

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[GranpaP]

LIMA, Peru — Authorities say 21 people were killed and 38 seriously injured when a bus veered off the road and plunged into a ravine in Peru's southeastern Andes Mountains
http://www.cheknews.ca/21-killed-38-inj ... ndes-74825


54 dead as tourist bus plunges into ravine in Brazil.
Up to 54 people died as a result of an accident in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, in which a bus fell into a ravine from a height of 400 meters, local police said in a dramatic increase of the initial death toll.
http://rt.com/news/240837-brazil-tourist-bus-accident/

[asal]

^veered

never mind. it veered then plunged.

the second bus fell. Brazilian.

[Lochdubh]

^veered

never mind. it veered then plunged.

the second bus fell. Brazilian.

passengers were waxed.

[deadskinmask]

^veered

never mind. it veered then plunged.

the second bus fell. Brazilian.

passengers were waxed.

thats the risk you take when you rely on pubic transportation....

[Lochdubh]

^veered

never mind. it veered then plunged.

the second bus fell. Brazilian.

passengers were waxed.

thats the risk you take when you rely on pubic transportation....

Anyone claiming otherwise is merely splitting hairs.

[deadskinmask]

passengers were waxed.

thats the risk you take when you rely on pubic transportation....

Anyone claiming otherwise is merely splitting hairs.

in his defense though, the driver was just trying to shave a few minutes off his route.

[Lochdubh]

thats the risk you take when you rely on pubic transportation....

Anyone claiming otherwise is merely splitting hairs.

in his defense though, the driver was just trying to shave a few minutes off his route.

/tis a Pity that he muffed it.

[deadskinmask]

Anyone claiming otherwise is merely splitting hairs.

in his defense though, the driver was just trying to shave a few minutes off his route.

/tis a Pity that he muffed it.

i heard he swerved to miss a beaver....

[Lochdubh]

in his defense though, the driver was just trying to shave a few minutes off his route.

/tis a Pity that he muffed it.

i heard he swerved to miss a beaver....

............and then things got hairy.

[Lochdubh]

Once the bus was airborne, finding a landing strip was completely out of the question.

[deadskinmask]

/tis a Pity that he muffed it.

i heard he swerved to miss a beaver....

............and then things got hairy.

the driver had a gash on his forehead....

[cc]

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[deadskinmask]

whelpy?

[Lochdubh]

i heard he swerved to miss a beaver....

............and then things got hairy.

the driver had a gash on his forehead....

..............and it was (meat) curtains for his passengers.

[deadskinmask]

............and then things got hairy.

the driver had a gash on his forehead....

..............and it was (meat) curtains for his passengers.

you know what they say - hair today. gone tomorrow....

[Lochdubh]

since this accident happened in the tropics, the victims were buried lickety split.

[deadskinmask]

since this accident happened in the tropics, the victims were buried lickety split.

not even a headstone.... just a mound....