The "new" Routemaster, any thoughts?

Trebor176

This looks bad. I hope all involved will be ok. Apparently the bus was only a day in service on the 11.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/three-seriously-hurt-as-boris-bus-on-wrong-route-causes-pileup-on-first-day-of-service-8834134.html

dublinman1990

Trebor176 wrote: »

This looks bad. I hope all involved will be ok. Apparently the bus was only a day in service on the 11.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/three-seriously-hurt-as-boris-bus-on-wrong-route-causes-pileup-on-first-day-of-service-8834134.html

Yikes; that is one nasty hit on a new bus with hopefully not many more to come in the future.

I am glad everyone will be ok after this very serious accident.

TFL would surely be investigating how this bus got a stuck throttle while travelling at speeds of 30mph. Boris Johnson should have been able to get a team of Transport safety professionals to carry out a detailed check up on the safety features before the bus went into service which may indicate something might go wrong with the specification of the vehicle.

Despite that every other bus in the London fleet goes through crashes at some point in their lifetime. I had thought that the NB4L would have somewhat relieved that scenario of that happening again. What has happened here is the complete opposite & the difference is that it might become a very costly one.

AlekSmart

dublinman1990 wrote: »

Yikes; that is one nasty hit on a new bus with hopefully not many more to come in the future.

I am glad everyone will be ok after this very serious accident.

TFL would surely be investigating how this bus got a stuck throttle while travelling at speeds of 30mph. Boris Johnson should have been able to get a team of Transport safety professionals to carry out a detailed check up on the safety features before the bus went into service which may indicate something might go wrong with the specification of the vehicle.

Despite that every other bus in the London fleet goes through crashes at some point in their lifetime. I had thought that the NB4L would have somewhat relieved that scenario of that happening again. What has happened here is the complete opposite & the difference is that it might become a very costly one.

Ah but...that presupposes that this incident is Bus related.

We know little as yet,except for the fact that the Bus was Off-Route and being driven in a haphazard manner.

I think I'll wait a bit for the results of the many investigations now under way (This IS TfL after all.)

The actual cause(s) of this incident may well not involve the Buses themselves at all....;)