Also, keep in mind you have a relatively stubby wheel base and almost no weight over the rear end.
A bus has a longer wheelbase and even empty the engine hangs over the tail end.
So a bobtail can actually get loose much quicker than a bus.
PA Turnpike-AGAIN!!!
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People have no value.
Amtrack has to sit in the side track while Uncle Pete roars through with freight at 80 on our tracks. However we have a dual main so Amtrack Texas Eagle catches a break twice daily. coming through at 79 for little rock or st louis-Chicago.
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Based on what I was reading, the bus hit the median, hit the hillside, flipped on it's right side (the articles say left side), then hit Fedex with it's front end, upon impact the driver of the bus was thrown from the bus. The two UPS trucks and a Mercedes came along next. The articles said there was only one person in the second UPS truck, he and both occupants of the MB were fine.
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There is no harness or restraint on buses. Out you go any way possible according physics.
In Frederick back in about 1980's we had a race track bus fail to hold pavement in rain bounced off the old railings of Jug Bridge (Old I-70 alignment, probably blown up since about 2000's) and ejected several I think two lived even after falling to the riverbed below which is about 140 feet down give or take.
Ive been in school bus smashes both old and modern. In the old you eat the steel railing on top of every seat back. In the modern bus if the smash is straight forward head on then it's the seat back in front of you that is the restraint. Otherwise out you go.
I have also witnessed first hand how people get themselves cut in half partially by failing to eject all the way through and out of say a pickup truck back window frame. They get hung up and then cut when the vehicle landed on the roof slicing into their body. That particular wreck, the husband was ejected forward about 30 yards. Dead on impact with median grass. Wife was portly and got hung up going the other way as the vehicle went into it's deathroll. She probably lived. She was not losing too much blood at the scene. You can even argue the rolls of fat on her was her saving grace.
I don't have to worry about stuff like that anymore. So thats the good thing about being out of the big road. -
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