ALX400 Bus Overturns In Belfast

Drimnagh Road

Found some pictures here,
http://chrisplayfairphotography.weebly.com/belfast-bus-crash-14th-august-11.html


I notice that Translink's "AV" type buses are much more luxurious than our ones in Dublin, the Belfast ones have bucket seats as opposed to our dreadful cheap and tacky bench seating.

patrickc

a Double decker has overturned in Belfast, no one dead thankfully.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0814/belfast.html


A double-decker bus has overturned outside Belfast's central station.
Up to 30 people are reported to have been injured.
None of those involved in the accident have suffered life-threatening injuries.
It is understood that at least six ambulances attended the crash. Fire crews had to cut the bus driver from his vehicle.
The PSNI sealed off the surrounding streets and all the city's hospitals were alerted as Belfast's major accident plan was implmented.

The bus was on the metro service ferrying passengers from east Belfast into the city centre.

A spokesperson for Translink said an investigation into the cause of the accident was under way.

Andrew33

Thankfully nobody killed. It's only a matter of time before one of DB's looney drivers overturns one down here and I can nearly guarantee it'll happen at the Suffolk st/Dame street junction.

Zoney

Is it the 37 or 39 that goes to Clonsilla? Anyway, back in 2000 or so it used have to drive over a humpback bridge over the Liffey (before the newer bridge nearby was built). It was always alarming as it came off it as it would turn hard and lurch to the side quite a lot! Felt like it was about to topple over and pitch into the river!

Bazzer2

Andrew33 wrote: »

Thankfully nobody killed. It's only a matter of time before one of DB's looney drivers overturns one down here and I can nearly guarantee it'll happen at the Suffolk st/Dame street junction.

Of course, even if it's caused by someone else, the bus driver will still be blamed by people like you.

Moronic. :rolleyes:

AlekSmart

Andrew33: It's only a matter of time before one of DB's looney drivers overturns one down here and I can nearly guarantee it'll happen at the Suffolk st/Dame street junction.

Bazzer2 wrote: »

Of course, even if it's caused by someone else, the bus driver will still be blamed by people like you.

Moron. :rolleyes:

Ah ye may be a bit harsh on poor oul Andrew33 there...;)

As one of Dublin Bus's "looney drivers",I might add fully licenced and accredited by several different agencies,I can see where Andrew33 is coming from.

I'm assuming that Andrew33 is not a Busdriver,so being in or in close proximity to a moving 2.55 mtr wide 11+mtr long double deck vehicle being manouvered along a botharín such as Church Lane will always appear to be a somewhat daunting experience.

I can assure Andrew33 that driving through Suffolk St/Church lane/College Green is no less a lunatic sensation than being a passenger.

I can equally reassure Andrew33 that the lunacy he ascribes solely to Dublin Bus drivers is,in fact equally experienced by Aircoach,Dualway,Mortons and indeed all other companies forced to stuff ever increasing numbers of ever larger vehicles through a totally inappropriate "laneway".

If perhaps our enlightened Civic Leadership were to bulldoze the roosting Taxi's from the section of Grafton Street between College Green and Nassau St,then,with a small amount of enlightened traffic planning and management it would be possible to re-direct at least some of the innapropriately large number of Bus movements along a contra-flow Bus lane here...as was possible up until the late 1960's (?).

Instead,Dublin City's Traffic Administrators send senior executive planners hither,tither and yon worldwide to study various 1st and 2nd world Capital Cities,a process which usually results in stunning initiatives,such as the last one at the junction of Suffolk St/Church Lane.....a 500mm Black Steel Bollard planted on the footpath opposite O'Neills front door,which if I remember correctly,remained upright for 24 hours...of such initiatives are great Civic Administrative careers made :rolleyes:

So yes indeed Andrew33,I would agree with you that the Suffolk St/Church Lane/College Green triangle is indeed an area prone to lunacy....but it's not only the Dublin Bus Drivers who display the symptoms

dfx-

I would've thought that Suffolk St/Dame St is such a bottleneck that you can never can go fast enough to turn over on a bicycle, never mind bus...