Tour Bus almost cut in two
Did any of you see the tour bus accident at Merced, California where the bus run into a metal light pole and the pole did not give and almost cut the tour bus in two? Looked like a Prevost tour bus.
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Jarlaxle wrote:msmith1199 wrote:SoCalDesertRider wrote:RayChez wrote:So the bus missed it's April 28, 2016 inspection.henleyd wrote:
There is absolutely no enforcement on ANYTHING on our borders. There have been several bad wrecks and deaths of people in busses from south of our once former border. We have to jump through hoops to keep our stuff safe while we too are at risk from unsafe busses from those areas. I used to drive the 99 all the time. It's awfull.
The bus was registered to Autobuses USA Inc, out of Southern California. They did drive into Mexico to pick up a load to take to Washington. The bus involved in the crash Tuesday was last inspected April 28,2015. The bus had no or defective brake warning light.
To me the bus looks fairly new. I think the bus driver fell asleep.
I have to have my commercial truck inspected anually, and all I do is haul welding equipment, not people.
How do these busses get away without showing proof of annual safety inspection with DOT?
News said it was a 1998 model. So it's 18 years old. I would bet this bus traveled up and down California on a daily basis so easily had more than a million miles on it, probably way more than that. Not that that necessarily means anything, but in 18 years you know it was well used. Those buses don't just sit in a yard, they are on the road all the time.
Miles on a highway coach mean nothing. I drove one with close to 5,000,000 miles...I think the LOWEST mileage coach we had was a VanHool with ~750K. We had 2 MCIs over a million miles--one may have had 2 million--and a Prevost with just over 950,000.
Miles could mean everything if the bus isn't maintained.
