Driverless bus magically 'flips over'.
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Posted 7 years ago #
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I see it's been updated. It's now a 600 word report, and it now mentions the driver!
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Its sounds like diesel engine runaway from the text, when the engine speeds up and eventually blows, can be caused by oil leaking in to engine or turbo issues and blocked air filter. You have to stall the engine when this occurs switching it off wont work in old engines as cant cut the source of fuel if oil leaking in to engine. I guess the bus is automatic or semi auto, if a standard manual worst happens is engines blows.
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So it seems* the driver previously had to use the key to disable the engine on approach to a roundabout. But he didn't think it fit to stop the faulty bus and abandon the trip. Instead he decided to carry on driving toward a hairpin bend...
*From a pupil witness report, may be unreliable.
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Would stalling or switching off the engine not also mostly disable the brakes? (presumably power assisted hydraulic)
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So does that mean that the bus really did run away with the driver (and passengers)?
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Car takes up farming, tries to plough bridge:
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Wow, a remarkable case of a driver being responsible for a crash!
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BMW left embedded in Banbury factory wall
The rear of a white BMW was left protruding from the wall of a factory after a crash. Firefighters were called at about 11:50 BST to Swan Road in Banbury after the car partially crashed through the wall of Laser Sailboats Ltd.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-39555257
(Does actually mention something called a "driver" in the next para, but this appears to have no connection to the crash or how the "powerful BMW" got stuck in a wall).
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Cars get stuck in wet cement at BP garage
Two cars got stuck at a filling station in West Lothian after driving into a freshly-cemented parking area. The area at the BP garage on Edinburgh Road, Bathgate, was cordoned off, but one car drove through the tape and sank immediately into the wet cement. Another car that followed the first one suffered the same fate.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-39717728
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Naughty lorry:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-39747667
Naughty van:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-39742685
...but not a naughty car. Someone reversed it:
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What the....?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/14/truck-eels-overturns-slime-cars-highway#img-1
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Just another day on the roads...
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4x4 vehicle crashes into River Almond near Edinburgh Airport
I hope it will be punished, maybe lose its licence.
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A maroon Ford Focus, a blue Peugeot 106, a dark blue Ford Fiesta and a Land Rover all failed to realise the new roundabout had been set up on the A516 in Mickleover, Derby.
That is an extremely stupid set of cars.
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Should have bought a Smart Car.
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Badum TSH!
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‘I am not familiar with the area but there was no lighting and no signage and I just drove straight into the roundabout and bumbled over it until we came to a stop.
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So not even on autopilot and 'I didn't realise the road layout had changed!'!
And (apparently) driving without lights.
Most odd.
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"I am not familiar with the area..."
You don't say.
"It is a bad one, as you simply don’t know it is there."
Again.........
Whatever happened to only travelling at a speed where you can stop on the bit of road you can actually see?
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@Snowy I see you are one of these "prescriptivist" road lawyers who thinks that what is written in the various parliamentary acts about the public carriageway should be adhered to.
I put forward the alternative notion that a "descriptivist" approach more closely matches reality. The rules of the road are the ones mutually agreed upon by the social forces of "what I can get away with when my hazard lights are on", "what the police can't be bothered enforcing", "what I can afford to pay to my friends in the council to look the other way", and "what I can blame on others".
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Some 4x4 cars have gone swimming
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-40790625
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Trailer follows Sat-Nav and flips, driver helpless.
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it was led by sat-nav down a narrow private road.
Satnavs are modern day Sirens, it seems.
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Another car gone bad. Might have to be put down.
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Criminal damage, arson, this car should have its licence taken away...
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