Bus Eireann Coach Fire on M1

foggy_lad

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/investigation-launched-after-bus-eireann-commuter-coach-catches-fire-on-m1-3165317.html

GARDAI are investigating how a Bus Eireann coach caught fire on the M1 motorway this morning.

The 6.40am Dublin to Dundalk Bus Eireann service was pulled over half a mile south of the M1 toll plaza when the driver noticed that smoke was coming from the vehicle.

The bus then burst into flames. There were 11 passengers onboard but all escaped without injury and were transferred to another bus to complete their journey.

A garda spokeswoman confirmed that officers attended the scene at around 8.30am this morning and that the blaze had been extinguished by about 8.45am.

She said an investigation was ongoing.

Green Diesel

From http://www.thejournal.ie/m1-bus-fire-pictures-eireann-515977-Jul2012/#slide-slideshow1

Solair

Yeiks - that looks pretty serious. Glad nobody was hurt!

popebenny16

if only they had an onboard toilet.

Mint Sauce

Well done to that driver and the emergency services. Could have been alot worse.

Terrontress

Engine fire. Fire spread forward.

miller50841

Happens a lot with fuel leaks pipes rupture and spill onto exhaust or engine.
Some great pics.
See it every so often last 1 was a 2004 aircoach parked up in ballinteer.
Its like lighting a chair or bed just keeps going.

foggy_lad

miller50841 wrote: »

Happens a lot with fuel leaks pipes rupture and spill onto exhaust or engine.
Some great pics.
See it every so often last 1 was a 2004 aircoach parked up in ballinteer.
Its like lighting a chair or bed just keeps going.

2003 coach is just pase its sell by date so no surprise considering the internal condition of Bus Eireann coaches, if the maintenance of the engine is similar it is surprising there are not many more fires and breakdowns.

miller50841

It happens with new ones also does happen to cars aswel

parsi

foggy_lad wrote: »

2003 coach is just pase its sell by date so no surprise considering the internal condition of Bus Eireann coaches, if the maintenance of the engine is similar it is surprising there are not many more fires and breakdowns.

The BVG in Berlin had a series of engine fires last year as well. Newish buses, Mercedes engines IIRC.

Interiors for Bus Eireann must be a curse with the amount of skangers travelling with their Golden Ticket who don't give a fiddlers about property.

foggy_lad

parsi wrote: »

The BVG in Berlin had a series of engine fires last year as well. Newish buses, Mercedes engines IIRC.

Interiors for Bus Eireann must be a curse with the amount of skangers travelling with their Golden Ticket who don't give a fiddlers about property.

not to mention students and young people who think it is ok to have their feet up on the back of the seat in front or on the seat beside them and stick their chewing gum wherever they can find a spot out of sight.

368100

Wow.... Must've been scary for the driver and passengers

AlekSmart

foggy_lad wrote: »

2003 coach is just pase its sell by date so no surprise considering the internal condition of Bus Eireann coaches, if the maintenance of the engine is similar it is surprising there are not many more fires and breakdowns.

Wot about the Dutch ones....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyYCpYa-S9I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoGeJhRDHYg&feature=related

The German ones.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJrnI3K28Cs&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wnSeKIhZAQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Doy5GLwBTFw&feature=related

Transatlantic ones....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlcUJ0laqO4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H0xANfwpEE&feature=related

...amd just to cap it all off a SCHOOL Bus......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QhjeVI5ciE&feature=related

Could take a while to establish a Bus Eireann link here Foggy...;)

Run_to_da_hills

miller50841 wrote: »

It happens with new ones also does happen to cars aswel

And Mercedes Sprinter Ambulances.

parsi

Them young people,
They'l be the death of someone.

lucernarian

foggy_lad wrote: »

not to mention students and young people who think it is ok to have their feet up on the back of the seat in front or on the seat beside them and stick their chewing gum wherever they can find a spot out of sight.

Of course, it's only the young people and students who are capable of doing such an act:rolleyes: What has your point got to do with burnt out Bus Éireann coaches or indeed the attention paid to the maintenance of interiors?!

foggy_lad

To_be_confirmed wrote: »

Of course, it's only the young people and students who are capable of doing such an act:rolleyes: What has your point got to do with burnt out Bus Éireann coaches or indeed the attention paid to the maintenance of interiors?!

If more attention was paid to maintenance and overall condition of buses inside and in the engine bay the engines might be less likely to catch fire.

etchyed

I've seen you post a lot of shíte on here in the last few years foggy, but this has got to be the worst. You know absolutely nothing about engine maintenance at Bus Éireann, and you admit as much in basing your threadbare point on the fact you've seen a few tatty bus interiors.

Maybe Bus Éireann's engine maintenance is woeful, maybe it's top class; I simply don't know and nor do you. If someone had been killed or injured in this fire your uninformed accusations would probably have quite serious legal ramifications, and I'm not sure they don't as it is.

foggy_lad wrote: »

not to mention students and young people who think it is ok to have their feet up on the back of the seat in front or on the seat beside them and stick their chewing gum wherever they can find a spot out of sight.

And Jesus Christ, really? Those pesky "students and young people" are at it again with their feet and their chewing gum! You're beyond a cliché.