The coach crash today

Burnsy2023 said:
I think the requirement is just for a seatbelt. Most tend to have a lapbelt.
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clv101 said:
I regularly travel on National Express coaches (London return for ~£13!) and pretty much all their coaches have three point. I'd say only about a third wear them. Guess some folk are just too cool to belt up. :rolleyes:
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Hummm, I'm never the first to call for state intervention but putting them in cars was a good thing. The technology is there to also allow the driver to be alerted if the seat belts are undone whilst moving - I don't feel this is unjust in anyway to anyone bar the coach company who have to stump the cost of fitting them to their fleet.
 
The kids were from the school i went to, and the crash was 5 miles from the village my parents live in. My facebook is mental and i must have been asked to join ten or so "rip natasha paton" groups.

Anyhoo, as far as i can tell, the bus had seatbelts, but when do kids ever wear them? especially when setting off on a trip to alton towers with all their friends. The whole town of Lanark is angry and everyones view is that the bus should never have left considering the weather conditions, my girlfriends driving instructor, sue thornton, didnt let her son go on the trip because of the conditions and has done a wee interview with the bbc saying why.
 
kieranv said:
my girlfriends driving instructor, sue thornton, didnt let her son go on the trip because of the conditions and has done a wee interview with the bbc saying why.
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Yeah I head the interview on R4 at around 1'ish I think. I agreed with her point that the parents are just as much to blame if blame must be used in anyway. I only see it as a tragic accident.
 
Allegedly:

a) The coach was fitted with seatbelts which many of the children were wearing but the girl who died had chosen not to wear a seatbelt
b) The coach was running late and the driver took a short cut on a minor road.

From other news sources.
 
I can see both of those being true, as the road they crashed on is a "shortcut" to the M74 from lanark, its certainly not a normal route to be taking to Englandshire anyway.
 
snow was really bad around there and the wind didnt help it was like a small blizzard. Very easy to see how it could have happend. Tragic accident and I hope that no one plays the blame game. The parents could have easily stopped there kids from going like the driving instructor women did.
 
I hate hearing stories like this when I'm about to leave for tour next week...24 hours on a coach :(
 
I'll admit to not belting up in coaches in the past. I (stupidly) thought that given the shear size of the thing you were likely to come out of an accident safe and sound. I'll certainly be reconsidering in the future :(.
 
Anytime I've been on a coach in recent years I belt up. I can't help but think that hitting my face off the back of the seat infront at 50mph would be sore....or my head off the window......etc etc.

Back at school.....I'd probably be munching my way through a tube of pringles being all excited about the trip!

I was pretty sure that road can be driven quick in the dry but has some bad bits which is probably why this has happened. Don't imagine coaches can 'handle'.
 
How times change and how creepy too! My worst moment that I remember on the road was actually on a coach going to Alton Towers when we kissed a petrol tanker down a tight lane. I was at the front offside looking out the window and both coach and tanker we going to quick down a tight lane. To this day I don't know how we didn't have a huge crash as I remember the tanker swaying as he tried to avoid us, the coach drivers swear words as he tried to avoid the tanker and the bang as mirrors clashed!

I also remember coaches on school trips topping 100mph!
 
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