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Author: BoltarBoltar Date: May 20, 2008 04:06
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Author: NeillNeill Date: May 20, 2008 04:11
On May 20, 12:06 pm, Boltar yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
From the look of it, this one wasn't fitted. You don't see many with
them anyway. It must have been a pretty serious incident for there to
be a death and so many injuries.
Neill
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Author: AdrianAdrian Date: May 20, 2008 04:16
Boltar yahoo.co.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying:
The pic shows that the roof pillars have bent, and the main roof itself
is damaged. The bars are just to push smaller branches out the way - they
won't protect against a trunk or solid branch strike. The driver's meant
to do that bit.
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Author: Roland PerryRoland Perry Date: May 20, 2008 04:16
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<1b42626f-b875-4a66-8ff6-c5284fb76d8d@ m73g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>, at
04:11:30 on Tue, 20 May 2008, Neill hotmail.com> remarked:>
>From the look of it, this one wasn't fitted. You don't see many with
>them anyway. It must have been a pretty serious incident for there to
>be a death and so many injuries.
As it hit a tree (when buses normally pass by unaffected), and killed a
pedestrian, perhaps the bus had mounted the pavement?
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Roland Perry
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Author: BoltarBoltar Date: May 20, 2008 04:23
On May 20, 12:11 pm, Neill hotmail.com> wrote:> From the look of it, this one wasn't fitted. You don't see many with
> them anyway. It must have been a pretty serious incident for there to
> be a death and so many injuries.
Yes , does look nasty. I don't know that road but since its central
london you'd think the trees would be regularly trimmed back so buses
don't hit them. Perhaps a branch came down or something. Unless the
driver mounted the pavement of course but it doesn't look like it.
B2003
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Author: AdrianAdrian Date: May 20, 2008 04:25
Roland Perry perry.co.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying:
>>From the look of it, this one wasn't fitted. You don't see many with
>>them anyway. It must have been a pretty serious incident for there to be
>>a death and so many injuries.
> As it hit a tree (when buses normally pass by unaffected), and killed a
> pedestrian, perhaps the bus had mounted the pavement?
Do you know whether the bus actually hit the pedestrian? Or was she
killed by falling glass?
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Author: Ernst S BlofeldErnst S Blofeld Date: May 20, 2008 04:36
Adrian wrote:
> The pic shows that the roof pillars have bent, and the main roof itself
> is damaged. The bars are just to push smaller branches out the way - they
> won't protect against a trunk or solid branch strike. The driver's meant
> to do that bit.
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Author: BoltarBoltar Date: May 20, 2008 04:44
On May 20, 12:36 pm, Ernst S Blofeld new-spectre-base.com>
wrote:> Adrian wrote:
>> The pic shows that the roof pillars have bent, and the main roof itself
>> is damaged. The bars are just to push smaller branches out the way - they
>> won't protect against a trunk or solid branch strike. The driver's meant
>> to do that bit.
Thats a large chunk of tree. You'd think the driver could hardly fail
to spot it in the way though they seem not to spot low bridges either
so who knows. I wonder if the bus was on diversion.
B2003
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Author: NeillNeill Date: May 20, 2008 04:51
On May 20, 12:44 pm, Boltar yahoo.co.uk> wrote:> On May 20, 12:36 pm, Ernst S Blofeld new-spectre-base.com>
> wrote:
>>> Adrian wrote:
>>> The pic shows that the roof pillars have bent, and the main roof itself
>>> is damaged. The bars are just to push smaller branches out the way - they
>>> won't protect against a trunk or solid branch strike. The driver's meant
>>> to do that bit.
>
>> There's a better(*) pic here;
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>> (*) At time of writing (the BBC article is subject to updates).
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> Thats a large chunk of tree. You'd think the driver could hardly fail
> to spot it in the way though they seem not to spot low bridges either
> so who knows. I wonder if the bus was on diversion.
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Author: BoltarBoltar Date: May 20, 2008 05:36
On May 20, 12:51 pm, Neill hotmail.com> wrote:> Don't think it was on diversion. One branch is down and it loks like
> another is hanging off. That's a tremedous amount of damage caused by
> a branch of even a fullt grown plane tree. What speed was it going at
> the time?
The tree? Not very fast I suspect. Though possibly the bus driver
missed a "plant crossing" sign further back up the road :)
B2003
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