Bus collides with tree in D15.

January · 19-09-2016 4:21pm #1

So a bus hit a tree branch on the Hartstown Road today and this is the damage done.

No injuries thankfully.

http://www.thejournal.ie/dublin-bus-damage-2987447-Sep2016/?utm_source=facebook_short

givyjoe · 19-09-2016 4:24pm

WTF, was the tree made of steel?!

Polar101 · 19-09-2016 6:31pm

Ouch.. sounds like it would have happened on Shelerin road then.

RobbingBandit · 19-09-2016 6:39pm

Wonder does SIPTU have a tree division.

5T3PH3N · 19-09-2016 6:44pm

It happened on the Shelerin road, right beside Mountview church. Bus was moved around the corner before being towed away.

BettePorter · 19-09-2016 6:57pm

How on earth....

TheQuietFella · 19-09-2016 7:01pm

Where was the branch before the incident? It didn't just appear overnight!

Cortina_MK_IV · 19-09-2016 7:01pm

RobbingBandit wrote: »

Wonder does SIPTU have a tree division.

Joe O'Flynn in Branch secretary,

handlemaster · 19-09-2016 7:01pm

Latest report from insurance companies is there were 250 people on the bus at the time

thomasj · 20-09-2016 8:38am

I was reading the comments in that article and there is one notable comment from someone claiming to be there.

According to that comment , at the time children were being collected and parents were parked along that road.

With that in mind, the road is already narrow enough and the overhanging branches I'm not surprised this has happened, it was only a matter of time.

I saw a trailer passing not long ago through hartstown with parts of tree in it so maybe the branches have been cut.

if not this will need to be looked at seriously . This road is not the most suitable for buses at times. If this can't be sorted they may need to look at routing buses up the hartstown link road which im sure most people in mountview, lohunda, Inglewood, woodvale etc would not want .