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Posted by NIMBYkiller on Fri Jul 20 21:32:00 2012 http://www.lohud.com/VideoNetwork/1745767700001/Megabus-crash-on-I-684&odyssey=mod|video |
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Re: Megabus accident on I-684 |
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Posted by metrolinecoach111 on Fri Jul 20 23:06:43 2012, in response to Megabus accident on I-684, posted by NIMBYkiller on Fri Jul 20 21:32:00 2012. Absolutely horrific. Thank goodness no one got seriously injured. |
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Posted by Gold_12TH on Fri Jul 20 23:16:30 2012, in response to Megabus accident on I-684, posted by NIMBYkiller on Fri Jul 20 21:32:00 2012. video: http://www.LoHud.com/videonetwork/1745767700001/Megabus-crash-on-I-684 SOUTHEAST - Traffic on Interstate 684 north was backed up for about 15 miles through Friday’s rush hour after a Megabus from New York to Boston bus collided with a car on the highway and nearly toppled over. About 60 passengers on the double-decker Megabus were stranded after the 2 p.m. crash and had to be physically helped through windows of the teetering bus, which wound up leaning precariously against a guard rail. Brewster and Croton Falls firefighters had to stabilize the bus before they could put up ladders to evacuate the upper-deck riders through the windows. No passengers were injured, Brewster Assistant Fire Chief Bill Rieg said. The accident happened about a mile south of Interstate 84, north of the Southeas rest area, and the car sustained rear-end damage. Just one lane was open past the accident scene, and I-684 northbound traffic was backed up for about 7 miles at 4 p.m., to Exit 6, Route 35, Katonah-Cross River. As the rush hour proceeded and the wreck remained on the side of the highway, delays in the northbound lanes doubled to about 15 miles, with the jam going past exit , around 5:45 p.m. At 7 p.m., traffic was easing although the bus remained on the side of the road, north of the Southeast rest area and south of the Interstate 84 interchange. The passengers were taken by bus to the Brewster firehouse and given coffee, tea and soda as they waited for another Megabus to arrive. Rieg also ordered 13 pizzas for the crowd. “We’re so happy nobody got hurt,” he said, adding that the last time the firehouse was used as a shelter was during Hurricane Irene last summer. “Thank God for that guard rail.” Pattie Rydlun of Boston, who became a de facto leader for the passengers and served as their liaison to Megabus staff, said the Brewster firefighters were “priceless people.” “It was a hectic, scary crash, so I think people are still somewhat shaken,” she said, as she wrangled Ibuprofen for several passengers and created a makeshift lost-and-found. “But humans, we all rally, we’re all kind to each other, we’re all very patient.” It was the second mishap of the day for the Megabus, which left New York at about 10:30 a.m. and had been scheduled to arrive in Boston at 2:25 p.m. Shortly after leaving the city, the bus driver noticed transmission problems and pulled to the side of the road. Passengers said it took another hour for a replacement bus to arrive – and then there was the crash. Megabus, a British import, offers discount buses – advertised as being potentially as cheap as $1 fares – from New York to cities like Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C., among others. The company, based in Elizabeth, N.J., has a safe driving record, according to records from the U.S. Department of Transportation. Federal officials have inspected 184 Megabus buses in the past two years and found problems with five vehicles — an average of 2.7 percent, which is far lower the national average 20.7 percent for bus carriers, DOT records show. Still, the company’s good safety record did little to appease those involved in the crash. Alyssa Newman of Woodbury Heights, N.J., was traveling to Boston to see a friend attending graduate school at the University of Massachusetts. She said she’s thinking twice about using Megabus again. “It was scary. Our bus was hanging to the side,” she said. “I’m probably going to take Amtrak from now on. It’s a little more expensive, but I’ll pay the money.” The crash was the second this month in the Lower Hudson Valley involving a bus. Early July 4, a speeding tour bus returning to Brooklyn from a Connecticut casino crashed on Interstate 95 in New Rochelle, injuring the driver and 23 passengers. No charges were filed against the driver, Wei Chen, 48, of Brooklyn, , but state police gave him two tickets on July 8, one for speeding and the other for improper lane usage, answerable in New Rochelle City Court. ---http://www.lohud.com/article/20120720/NEWS04/307210011/Bus-collides-car-684-Southeast-riders-rescued-by-ladder-10-mile-traffic-backup-N-B?odyssey=nav%7Chead |
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Re: Megabus accident on I-684 (story) |
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Posted by oldman on Sat Jul 21 00:12:44 2012, in response to Re: Megabus accident on I-684 (story), posted by Gold_12TH on Fri Jul 20 23:16:30 2012. DD044 another VH for the open top market |
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Posted by South FERRY on Sat Jul 21 04:05:46 2012, in response to Re: Megabus accident on I-684 (story), posted by Gold_12TH on Fri Jul 20 23:16:30 2012. Judging by the looks of the mangled exterior of the passenger car involved, $2 says with the upcoming merge/exit for I-84, the car tried to speed up and cut-in-front-of-the-bus under moderate rainfall...... and lost. How else would the bus wind up veering right and having it's hind wheels off-road, teetering on a highway railing as such?? It's amusing in all these pictures, not one of the passenger car's driver nor an interview. As a regular passenger of the MegaBus NYC-BOS route, I will continue to travel with the company. |
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Re: Megabus accident on I-684 (story) |
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Posted by ctrabs74 on Sat Jul 21 04:30:22 2012, in response to Re: Megabus accident on I-684 (story), posted by Gold_12TH on Fri Jul 20 23:16:30 2012. 684 seems like an odd routing to reach Boston from Manhattan. There must've been a lot of construction or other traffic issues on 95/91 in Connecticut. |
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Posted by JAzumah on Sat Jul 21 09:26:28 2012, in response to Re: Megabus accident on I-684 (story), posted by ctrabs74 on Sat Jul 21 04:30:22 2012. That is a normal double decker path. It provides consistent arrival times. |
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Posted by NIMBYkiller on Sat Jul 21 11:40:32 2012, in response to Re: Megabus accident on I-684 (story), posted by ctrabs74 on Sat Jul 21 04:30:22 2012. It's so much more reliable than I-95 to I-91. I did it at Boltbus once, but Greyhound wants you going the other way. |
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Re: Megabus accident on I-684 |
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Posted by 167t on Sat Jul 21 16:48:02 2012, in response to Megabus accident on I-684, posted by NIMBYkiller on Fri Jul 20 21:32:00 2012. I would avoid Megabus at all costs; they pay scale is very low for starters. If a driver can't even figure out how to put the headlights on in the dark, he or she should not be driving a bus. I see this all too frequently. |
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Re: Megabus accident on I-684 (story) |
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Posted by Bill from Maspeth on Sat Jul 21 18:34:42 2012, in response to Re: Megabus accident on I-684 (story), posted by Gold_12TH on Fri Jul 20 23:16:30 2012. I guess this Newman broad automatically feels the MegaBus operator was at fault even before the cause was investigated?Maybe the car cut off the bus and the b/o was trying to avoid a collision? Sure she was pissed over the bus swap beforehand. Does she realize that in exchange for cheap fares, the buses, and a bus is a machine, get ran into the ground. You get what you pay for. Just till the first time her Amtrak ride is severely delayed for whatever reason! |
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Re: Megabus accident on I-684 |
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Posted by metrolinecoach111 on Sat Jul 21 20:45:15 2012, in response to Re: Megabus accident on I-684, posted by 167t on Sat Jul 21 16:48:02 2012. Actually their pay scale is fairly decent considering.The problem is the drivers aren't trained how to properly react to situations behind the wheel of a DD - besides, those buses can be dangerous to drive because of the top-heavy nature of the structure (it's flimsy when it's windy). |
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