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  1. Driverless bus magically 'flips over'.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-38918468

    Posted 7 years ago #
  2. Snowy
    Member

    I see it's been updated. It's now a 600 word report, and it now mentions the driver!

    Posted 7 years ago #
  3. Ed1
    Member

    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.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  4. neddie
    Member

    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.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  5. Snowy
    Member

    Would stalling or switching off the engine not also mostly disable the brakes? (presumably power assisted hydraulic)

    Posted 7 years ago #
  6. fimm
    Member

    So does that mean that the bus really did run away with the driver (and passengers)?

    Posted 7 years ago #
  7. chdot
    Admin

    Posted 7 years ago #
  8. neddie
    Member

    Car takes up farming, tries to plough bridge:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-39479348

    Posted 6 years ago #
  9. lorlane
    Member

    Car chases teens on pavement

    Posted 6 years ago #
  10. Stickman
    Member

    Wow, a remarkable case of a driver being responsible for a crash!

    http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/our-region/edinburgh/driver-flips-car-in-rush-hour-musselburgh-crash-1-4414202

    Posted 6 years ago #
  11. crowriver
    Member

    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).

    Posted 6 years ago #
  12. crowriver
    Member

    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

    Posted 6 years ago #
  13. Stickman
    Member

  14. I were right about that saddle
    Member

  15. neddie
    Member

    Just another day on the roads...

    Posted 6 years ago #
  16. neddie
    Member

  17. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    4x4 vehicle crashes into River Almond near Edinburgh Airport

    I hope it will be punished, maybe lose its licence.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  18. Stickman
    Member

  19. Min
    Member

    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.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  20. dougal
    Member

    Should have bought a Smart Car.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  21. Min
    Member

    Badum TSH!

    Posted 6 years ago #
  22. chdot
    Admin

    "

    ‘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.

    "

    So not even on autopilot and 'I didn't realise the road layout had changed!'!

    And (apparently) driving without lights.

    Most odd.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  23. Snowy
    Member

    "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?

    Posted 6 years ago #
  24. dougal
    Member

    @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".

    Posted 6 years ago #
  25. gembo
    Member

    Some 4x4 cars have gone swimming

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-40790625

    Posted 6 years ago #
  26. Dangerous
    Member

  27. Frenchy
    Member

    it was led by sat-nav down a narrow private road.

    Satnavs are modern day Sirens, it seems.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  28. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Another car gone bad. Might have to be put down.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  29. Stickman
    Member

  30. Snowy
    Member

    Criminal damage, arson, this car should have its licence taken away...

    Four people were injured, three of them seriously, when a car smashed through the side of a house and started a fire.

    Posted 6 years ago #

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