Kennington bus crash - 'many injured'

[Bungle73]

Both would come under my desk at work.

And when you have to suddenly find 25 ambulances it doesn't matter which bit of London they usually work.

TBH if a city like London can't cope with a couple of low level major incidents happening simultaneously then something is seriously wrong.

Looking at those images I wouldn't have liked to have been sitting at the front on the top deck.......and that is where I usually like to sit.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I hope the poor buggers who've been injured in this are OK.

 

[ViolentPanda]

yow, that must have been some impact!

Not helped by the fact that the buses aren't structurally-robust. Normally, with a car or van, you'd have some sort of "crumple zone" to absorb the impact, but those buses have nothing up-front to absorb any impact, only the panelwork, and the floorpans for the bottom and top decks. Otherwise, they're just skins of thin sheet steel riveted together over a fairly insubstantial skeleton frame.

 

[ViolentPanda]

That's one tough tree!

And a not particularly-robust bus.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Why don't buses have seatbelts?

 

[girasol]

That's on my work route. Don't think seabelts would have helped in that crash!

I love seating at the front of buses, I will rethink that, and not do it anymore.

 

[Smick]

Why don't buses have seatbelts?

Those buses don't really get up to much speed. People standing are probably more of an issue.

 

[agricola]

TBH if a city like London can't cope with a couple of low level major incidents happening simultaneously then something is seriously wrong.

Its not just two low level major incidents though, its everything else that an emergency service is having to deal with as well.

 

[Utopia]

Those buses don't really get up to much speed. People standing are probably more of an issue.

Actually at that point on Kennington road they do tend do go at a decent pace.

 

[Orang Utan]

How awful. can't imagine how frightening it must have been for the people on it. I'm sure a lot of us get that bus often.
I'm sat at the top front of a 53 now and a stupid part of me wants to move back a few rows.

 

[nagapie]

I'm sure a lot of us get that bus often.

I must have been on a 59 going in the same direction about 15 min before that happened How awful.

 

[Plumdaff]

TBH if a city like London can't cope with a couple of low level major incidents happening simultaneously then something is seriously wrong.

They can 'cope'.But yesterday and today would already be very busy days, think about the sheer number of Christmas parties, and then think about the amount of pissed accidents there will have been last night. Then throw in a major incident. wiskey knows more, but I reckon that Thomas' would have been first point of call for both incidents.

 

[Manter]

must have been terrifying

 

[wiskey]

They can 'cope'.But yesterday and today would already be very busy days, think about the sheer number of Christmas parties, and then think about the amount of pissed accidents there will have been last night. Then throw in a major incident. wiskey knows more, but I reckon that Thomas' would have been first point of call for both incidents.

Depends on the severity of injury. The hospitals will say how many of each category they can take. For the Apollo then tommys and the hutch would probably be getting half each, with major trauma going to the London or St Marys.

For the bus Tommys or Kings (which takes trauma).

There's been a big drive recently to make hospitals specialist centers in one or two things (ie Hyper Acute Stroke Units, Cardiac care/Cath labs, or trauma).

 

[Miss-Shelf]

the hutch

?

 

[Geri]

I love seating at the front of buses, I will rethink that, and not do it anymore.

I used to as well, until the top of a bus got sheared off by the branch of a tree in Bristol two years ago.

 

[T & P]

Well, IMO the chances of happening to any of us are pretty remote, given the number of buses around and passenger journeys undertaken every year vs the number of such incidents occurring. You might as well stop drinking beer from a can outdoors because a handful of people a year get stung by wasps that climb inside the can and get trapped and then swallowed.

 

[Smick]

Well, IMO the chances of happening to any of us are pretty remote, given the number of buses around and passenger journeys undertaken every year vs the number of such incidents occurring. You might as well stop drinking beer from a can outdoors because a handful of people a year get stung by wasps that climb inside the can and get trapped and then swallowed.

That's it! Live life to the full. The safest way to lead your life is to work from home in a bungalow, get Tesco to deliver your shopping, not play any sports. But where's the fun?

Sitting in the front seats upstairs, like Alexei Sayle in Ello John Got a New Motor, is one of the simple pleasures in life.

 

[spliff]

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I'm guessing UCH.

 

[thriller]

i'm sure accident direct will see quiet a few calls. couple grand compensation. good xmas present.

 

[ddraig]

you get 'funnier' by the day!
do you honestly think a claim would pay out that quick?

 

[Orang Utan]

i'm sure accident direct will see quiet a few calls. couple grand compensation. good xmas present.

What a prick

 

[thriller]

you get 'funnier' by the day!
do you honestly think a claim would pay out that quick?

of course not, dumb ass. figure of speech, dumb ass.

 

[Orang Utan]

Arse

 

[ViolentPanda]

i'm sure accident direct will see quiet a few calls. couple grand compensation. good xmas present.

Please have a horrible accident soon, then you too can get a couple of grand compensation.

 

[ViolentPanda]

of course not, dumb ass. figure of speech, dumb ass.

Interesting how often you use the expression "dumb ass".

You got called it a lot, didn't you?

 

[Smick]

The priest in Streatham Hill got everyone to say a prayer for the people on the bus. A nice touch, especially at Christmas when they are usually preaching other stuff.

 

[DRINK?]

That's one tough tree!

Worst thing you can crash into. A bush you'll go through, a wall will often crumble. Another vehicle will usually go somewhere though a tree that size is going nowhere