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Brenda Harvey Posts: 297 Joined: 28th Mar 2011 Location: USA | quotePosted at 07:37 on 6th October 2011 There was just an incident here between a bus and an elderly man being hit and killed. The bus driver sounded her horn and the backup beep was heard, but the man apparently didn't hear it and just stood where he was directly behind the bus. The driver backed up, knocked him down and he died instantly. Turned out later that one of the mirrors in the bus wasn't functional. I felt so sorry for the man and his family. The next day another bus was involved in an accident, but without injury. Hope there's not a third. |
Syd Harling Posts: 636 Joined: 21st Apr 2011 Location: South Africa | quotePosted at 16:27 on 8th October 2011 What a shame, perhaps the man was deaf? We have many bus crashes here in SA. Especially mini busses. One 2 weeks ago the driver overtook a long line of traffic to try and get in front but he collided with a semi coming the other was after bouncing off a car. The mini buss which was carrying 20 people instead of 15 went down a bank and the semi landed on top of it. 15 dead but the driver survived. His now in jail and has been charged. (With murder if you don't mind) Every day there are mini bas crashes because they drive like idiots and most of the vehicles are unroadworthy and overloaded. They also exceed the speed limit all the time. So tragic. Many of the mini busses are Toyota Hi-Aces which has prompted people to call them Hi impact African Culling Equipment. |
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