Title: seat belts on buses/coaches
Description: why?
tripleprince - September 3, 2007 09:25 PM (GMT)
i was asked by one of the american guys yesterday why we were asked to wear our seatbelts. at around 4pm today this happened:
Six people are being treated in hospital and a driver is being questioned by police after a National Express coach overturned on a motorway.
The single-decker coach clipped a kerb, hit a lamppost and a tree and toppled over onto the driver's side as it entered Newport Pagnell services on the southbound M1.
Thirty people were injured and the six with serious injuries were taken to hospitals in Milton Keynes, Northampton and Oxford.
Emergency services said 11 people, described as "walking wounded", received minor injuries and 17 were discharged at the scene.
The driver, who had to be cut free from the wreckage, was breath tested at the scene and arrested shortly afterwards on suspicion of drink-driving and dangerous driving.
you might remember this:
In January, three people died following a crash in which a National Express coach overturned on a motorway slip road.
The vehicle was travelling from Heathrow airport bound for Glasgow when the accident happened on the junction between the M4 and the M25.
The company temporarily withdrew its entire fleet of double-decker coaches for safety checks after the crash.
Ca$e - September 3, 2007 11:25 PM (GMT)
A very valid point, made by a man who stood in the aisle for pretty much the whole return journey ;)
My personal views on seatbelts are controversial, enhanced perhaps by someone we may know who may know a thing or two about brain injuries and quite frankly how surviving such horrific crashes may not always be the better scenario....
tripleprince - September 4, 2007 10:16 AM (GMT)
i was in the aisle for a very short time, but when at my seat i did use the seatbelt
Ca$e - September 4, 2007 07:47 PM (GMT)
Hmm, we must have very differing interpretations on how short a short time is, u seemed there most of the way back from my memory. But hey, adults and personal responsibility etc etc....
btw nice IP, can I hide mine too?!
tripleprince - September 4, 2007 10:23 PM (GMT)
no ip, no photo id - i exist on the periphery
not sure why mine is like that, but the 'mortals' can't see ip addresses anyway
Ca$e - September 4, 2007 10:39 PM (GMT)
Eww really, id hate to be just another ant ;)