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Forum: Todays Bus & Coach News 14th March 2012, 23:08
Replies: 11
Views: 7,192
Posted By G-CPTN
Originally (back in the 1960s), frontal impact...

Originally (back in the 1960s), frontal impact tests were done at 30mph. As you increase the speed the energy increases as the square of the speed, so doubling the speed quadruples the force of the...
Forum: Todays Bus & Coach News 14th March 2012, 22:23
Replies: 11
Views: 7,192
Posted By G-CPTN
The effect would be the same - if the two...

The effect would be the same - if the two vehicles were of identical weight and construction.

Barrier impact tests are done against a solid immoveable structure (as was the wall in the tunnel), so...
Forum: Todays Bus & Coach News 14th March 2012, 21:59
Replies: 11
Views: 7,192
Posted By G-CPTN
Reports that the seats were torn away from their...

Reports that the seats were torn away from their floor-mountings . . .
Forum: Todays Bus & Coach News 14th March 2012, 19:52
Replies: 11
Views: 7,192
Posted By G-CPTN
Apparently, photographs show at least one rear...

Apparently, photographs show at least one rear tyre deflated.

Here is a clip from GoogooMap of a refuge (though not the one where the crash occurred - this is from the opposite carrigeway).
...
Forum: Todays Bus & Coach News 14th March 2012, 18:20
Replies: 11
Views: 7,192
Posted By G-CPTN
Photograph of the 'wall':-...

Photograph of the 'wall':- http://1.nieuwsbladcdn.be/Assets/Images_Upload/2012/03/14/03143855_1.jpg.h600.jpg

Looking 'again' I suggest that there was a 'lay-by' (look at the road markings) which...
Forum: Todays Bus & Coach News 14th March 2012, 17:54
Replies: 11
Views: 7,192
Posted By G-CPTN
In Dutch, but there are 'graphics' - click on the...

In Dutch, but there are 'graphics' - click on the numbers 1 to 4:-

http://www.standaard.be/artikel/www.standaard.be/extra/busongeval
Forum: Todays Bus & Coach News 14th March 2012, 17:38
Replies: 11
Views: 7,192
Posted By G-CPTN
They were just an hour into the journey. ...

They were just an hour into the journey.

There was a vertical wall at the end of a 'run-off' area.

The coach veered over the kerb into the run-off area and hit the vertical wall at 'full...
Forum: Todays Bus & Coach News 14th March 2012, 14:44
Replies: 11
Views: 7,192
Posted By G-CPTN
Dreadful coach crash in Switzerland.

Both drivers and a score of children killed:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17362643

A recent crash involving a driver from the UK is thought to have resulted from the driver falling...
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