There have been photographically ddocumented incidents of people jumping
onto buses after accidents in New York.
Kenneth Waller wrote:
Neat looking bus, but I don't see any damage.
There was a similar incident a while ago, in Minneapolis, I believe, where
after a bus accident, more people showed up claiming injury, than were actually
on it at the time of the incident.
Kenneth Waller
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From: David Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PESO: The scene of an accident.
Los Angeles introduced a new bus line on the 29th of October. It is a
rapid line that runs on a road all its own called "Busway", thorough the
middle of the San Fernando Valley, connecting Woodland Hills / Warner
Center with the Metrolink subway system starting in North Hollywood.
The busyway has synchronized traffic lights that keep the bus moving all
the time. This means that as the busline road crosses major streets,
traffic stops on those surface roads.
I rode the Orange Line today as a novelty, to see how the experience was
going to be. My wife came with me. We had been on the bus for less
than two minutes, when suddenly it was struck by a fast moving car that
ran its red light. The car broadsided the bus. The car was seriously
damaged, and driver taken to the hospital in critical condition (she was
later upgraded to stable).
We were then put through a triage routine by the first responders to
determine who (if anyone) was injured. Mostly any injuries were just
people pretending to be injured, thinking their gravy train had come in.
Despicable really. Anyway, it held us all up by about 90 minutes.
Fortunately I had my camera.
Taken with the *ist-DS, and the DA16-45 lens....
http://users.adelphia.net/~daoswald/pictures/index.html
Warning: It's about 4.5 megabytes of photos that will load.
I posted the pictures quickly because a woman riding on the bus with us
is married to a reporter. Quickly he was on the cell with me requesting
any of the pictures I took. ...I had to remove the ones where my wife
was posing, smiling next to the firefighters. It seemed a little
inappropriate after the fact. ;)
Dave
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