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Post by buspilot on Feb 8, 2014 10:58:23 GMT 1
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2014 19:29:02 GMT 1
The cause is believed to be a broken accelerator on the single decker. 15 people were injured in the incident. A little closer to home Bendy-bus 6005 (an ex route 501 vehicle) went up in flames at the ASDA end of the Garston Bypass today. It's on Youtube already. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m5UEdRPLOc |
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Post by Biggles on Feb 8, 2014 22:16:16 GMT 1
I bet the Magic Bus driver wishes he could make things vanish.
I bet there will be some compensation claims appearing from this one.
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Post by maverick on Feb 9, 2014 11:49:02 GMT 1
The cause is believed to be a broken accelerator on the single decker. 15 people were injured in the incident. A little closer to home Bendy-bus 6005 (an ex route 501 vehicle) went up in flames at the ASDA end of the Garston Bypass today. It's on Youtube already. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m5UEdRPLOcAh good old German engineering.. apparently not the first time either reading the comments below on the YouTube clip |
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Post by buspilot on Feb 9, 2014 14:14:57 GMT 1
....meanwhile in Blackpool, according the The Blackpool Gazette:  |
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Post by davecalveley on Feb 9, 2014 19:34:13 GMT 1
Back to the bus incident
When an accelerator jams usually due to a foreign object dropping into the linkage the final impact dislodges the object leaving the driver.with a hell of a job trying to prove it...have seen a lot of experienced drivers not believed and put back into learner bus for remedial training...the only way to deal with a high revving engine is to select neutral-the accelerator and brake pedals are also too close on some models
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2014 22:54:31 GMT 1
Dave your spot on with that foreign object. It's only happend to me once and hopefully will never again.
In the late 80's when MTL first got the Olympian I was stopped at a bus stop and just ahead of me was a set of lights. The lights were on red so I thought I'd do a slow crawl up to them in the hope they would change before I got there. I placed my foot on the accelerator to get the bus moving and removed it again to do the crawl but to my surprise it kept on going. I quickly placed my foot on the brake and selected neutral to bring it to a stop but the engine was still revving high. Believing the vehicle to be faulty I switched the engine off, transferred the passengers, and radioed in for an exchange. An engineer rather than a shunter came out with the exchange, he restarted the Olympian but it was no different. So, he fiddled about in the engine compartment with no luck, placed his foot on and off the accelerator but still no change. He eventually got down on his hands and knees to examine the accelerator pedal when almost immediately the engine stopped revving, he then turned to me and asked if I'd changed a ticket roll? As I hadn't I obviously replied in the negative. Someone has he said and proceeded to show me the culprit which was the plastic insert from a ticket roll.
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Post by Biggles on Feb 10, 2014 0:00:52 GMT 1
Cause of the emergency vehicle accident was clearly a sleeping policeman. Dropping objects into a cab is a problem which is probably why the military aircrews wear zipped pocket flying suits and a check is made to remove the possibility of dropping anything into the cockpit which could jam any controls. I can see bus drivers now wearing similar after this. (  ) |
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