Comment on Quick thinking teenage girl saves runaway bus from crashing into New South Wales petrol station
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 10 months ago
Shorter TLDR: Driver outside bus, no report of why, or why it was not secured. Girl on bus steers it away and hits brake while driver panics and tries to stop bus by holding on to and being dragged by the mirror.
Article doesn’t say she steered it. Did the driver maybe push it away just enough to reach driveway rather than go over the gutter?
You can see it veers suddenly when it reaches the driveway. The right wheel reaches it first so that would have made it veer right.
And if it hit the gutter it would have slowed, maybe even stopping by the time the rear wheels hit.
Uhhh
“It was heading near the petrol tank and no one was doing anything so I jumped up, got into action and steered it away.”
Well… no mention except for that part.
Haha been there 😀
Zagorath@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Yeah the lack of mention about why the bus didn’t have its handbrake on, or of any investigation into that matter, was a bit weird.
Evia@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It does say at the bottom that it’s been referred for investigation
abhibeckert@beehaw.org 10 months ago
“The incident has been reported to officers from Richmond Police District who have commenced an investigation.”
If I was the driver’s lawyer, I’d be instructing him to keep his mouth shut for the entirety of that investigation and whatever criminal charges might follow.
At the start of the video the bus is stopped on a downhill, so the handbrake must have been on.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 10 months ago
The hill doesn’t look particularly steep, and I think the bus was already rolling at the start of the video, seemingly from an even less steep section. I wonder (pure speculation here) if perhaps the bus was at first holding in place thanks to only the resistance provided by being in gear.