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Title: Pupils injured after school bus crash in County Down - 7 October 2024 Post by: Chris from Nailsea on October 08, 2024, 16:07:31 From the BBC (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cglk8lgkzd6o):
Quote (https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/480/cpsprodpb/d623/live/bafb0d10-84ca-11ef-8fd7-3fb6f0aa9872.jpg.webp) More than 40 school children were in the bus when it crashed A double-decker bus carrying more than 40 school children has crashed in County Down. The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) declared it as a "major incident", but has since stood it down. It said the bus was carrying 43 school children, as well as the driver. Four children were taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has confirmed. The incident happened on the Ballyblack Road East, near Carrowdore after 16:00 BST. Translink said the bus was carrying students from Strangford College to Bangor. In a statement, the PSNI said that NIAS treated and discharged 33 people at the scene. Several patients also self-presented at the Ulster Hospital. Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) deployed five fire appliances to the scene. Firefighters used specialist cutting equipment to rescue two casualties from the bus. Pictures on social media showed the vehicle on its side in a field having left the road. (continues) Title: Re: Pupils injured after school bus crash in County Down - 7 October 2024 Post by: ChrisB on October 08, 2024, 16:20:34 This was yesterday. Amazingly, no one held in hospital overnight.
Title: Re: Pupils injured after school bus crash in County Down - 7 October 2024 Post by: Chris from Nailsea on October 08, 2024, 20:11:52 I know. That's why I included the date in the title of this topic. ;)
Title: Re: Pupils injured after school bus crash in County Down - 7 October 2024 Post by: broadgage on October 11, 2024, 01:04:32 This was yesterday. Amazingly, no one held in hospital overnight. School age kids are arguably the most resilient age group and withstand this sort of accident surprisingly well. Had the bus contained a similar number of pensioners or middle aged overweight people or babies, it is probable that lives would have been lost. Title: Re: Pupils injured after school bus crash in County Down - 7 October 2024 Post by: Ralph Ayres on October 11, 2024, 12:20:57 No indication of cause at this stage, but this does of course illustrate that driving skills of professional drivers need to be high. One worry about this type of incident is that the parents will now start driving their children to school in a (possibly misguided) move to keep them safe. Given the likelihood of variable standards among those parents, on average a crash is probably more likely though with less potential for a large number of casualties.
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