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Luas crash if anyone wants to get some good pictures !?

Placebo · 2009-09-16 14:29:33

Just heard about it http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=2055683896 http://twitpic.com/hxkzr

16-09-2009 2:29pm

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Just heard about it

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=2055683896
http://twitpic.com/hxkzr

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#2 16-09-2009 2:40pm

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there's a few different angles on twitter atm.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/darragh/3926211414/

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#3 16-09-2009 2:47pm

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Placebo wrote: »

Just heard about it

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=2055683896
http://twitpic.com/hxkzr

Pretty good view from that apartment in the twitterpic. I know Fionn who lives there and have gotten some nice pics from his place before.

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#4 16-09-2009 3:04pm

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the front of the luas really came apart, I guess its mostly glass, but still

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#5 16-09-2009 3:14pm

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have a look http://twitpic.com/hxljd/full

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#6 16-09-2009 5:02pm

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I love how people are just standing there gawking at it, wtf are they expecting to happen?

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#7 16-09-2009 5:53pm

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Rb wrote: »

I love how people are just standing there gawking at it, wtf are they expecting to happen?

Watching the emergency services at work?

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#8 16-09-2009 9:01pm

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Rb wrote: »

I love how people are just standing there gawking at it, wtf are they expecting to happen?

Superman to drop down of Easons and fix everything.

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#9 16-09-2009 9:05pm

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Ghost Train wrote: »

the front of the luas really came apart, I guess its mostly glass, but still

As far as I know, it's designed to crumple if it collides

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#10 16-09-2009 9:13pm

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Shhhhhh! or the place will be crawling with lawyers

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#11 16-09-2009 9:25pm

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Fajitas! wrote: »

As far as I know, it's designed to crumple if it collides

Looking at some of the later photos the base of the tram did plenty of damage to the bus and the driver section was intact inside the bus. Both bus and tram must have been pretty fast for neither to react

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#12 17-09-2009 2:18am

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Ricky91t wrote: »

Watching the emergency services at work?

I think it's more likely that they're waiting for dead bodies to be carried out than to be merely watching some guys clear up a wreckage.

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#13 17-09-2009 8:10am

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Rb wrote: »

I think it's more likely that they're waiting for dead bodies to be carried out than to be merely watching some guys clear up a wreckage.

As an ex-fireman this is about right.

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#14 17-09-2009 1:19pm

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On the last one, will you look at all the eejits taking photos. :rolleyes:

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#15 17-09-2009 1:46pm

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qwertz wrote: »

On the last one, will you look at all the eejits taking photos. :rolleyes:

And blocking the way for emergency services. If it doesn't affect you personally walk on. Take it in to account and read about it in a newspaper or see it on the news. FFS.

This is rubbernecking in the most macabre way.

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#16 17-09-2009 2:11pm

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chin_grin wrote: »

And blocking the way for emergency services. If it doesn't affect you personally walk on. Take it in to account and read about it in a newspaper or see it on the news. FFS.

This is rubbernecking in the most macabre way.

And how do we read it in the news if those people arent there documenting whats happeing and taking pictures.
People are intruiged by it, let them look.
Noone blocked the way for emergency services, im pretty sure people would move and not just stand there!

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#17 17-09-2009 3:09pm

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Tallon wrote: »

And how do we read it in the news if those people arent there documenting whats happeing and taking pictures.
People are intruiged by it, let them look.
Noone blocked the way for emergency services, im pretty sure people would move and not just stand there!

Indeed, I´d deffo be havin a good snoop if I was around. Looks brilliant.
Anyone hurt?

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#18 17-09-2009 8:22pm

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http://www.garda.ie/PressReleases/Default.aspx

Witness Appeal - Luas/Bus Crash on O'Connell Street, Dublin on the 16/9/09.

Anyone who was in the area of O’Connell Street Lower and Abbey Street junction between 2.50 p.m. and 3.15 p.m.

Gardai are appealing for witnesses to collision on O’Connell Street Lower, between a Luas tram and a Dublin Bus about 3.00 p.m. on the 16th of September, to contact them.

They would like to speak to anyone who was in the area of O’Connell Street Lower and Abbey Street junction between 2.50 p.m. and 3.15 p.m.

Gardai also believe that a number of passengers of the bus and the Luas may have left the scene before emergency services arrived and we would like them to contact us.

Anyone with any information is asked to contact Store Street Garda station on 01 666 8000.

Garda Press Office
17th September 2009.

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#19 18-09-2009 10:26am

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Product placement at its best

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#20 18-09-2009 10:30am

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Daz R1 wrote: »

Product placement at its best

Nice photoshopping!

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