Truemors
is reporting from
Member
NP Rank:
NP Rank:
Three People Killed In Alberta Greyhound Crash
Share: 
by Rob Walker | November 6, 2007 at 01:15 pm
1024 views | 0 Recommendations | 2 comments
Apparently the driver lost control as they were driving through freezing rain and crashed. I would assume it flipped at some point as there are reports of people being thrown through windows.
Three people are dead after a Greyhound bus rollover east of Grande Prairie.The driver of the Edmonton-bound bus lost control in freezing rain near Bezanson, about 50 kilometres east of Grande Prairie shortly before 6:30 in the morning. The driver of the bus is believed to have been with the company about one year.
STARS confirms to 630 CHED News it transported a young man and a middle-aged woman to hospital in Grande Prairie. A third critically injured patient was transported by ground ambulance.
What is NowPublic?
NowPublic lets people work together to cover news events around the world.
Most RecentMost Recommended Comments (2)
at 22:55 on March 30th, 2009
Accident probably due to swivelling tag axle that allows a bus to turn in a shorter distance
The idea came from John Alexander-a driver in Toronto Ontario when the company was to
acquire 45 foot long buses from the time when buses were 40 feet long and could contain
47 passengers as they had thought that the 54 passenger bus at 45 feet in length would save them money as an extra bus and driver would not be needed for overloads
dumb move as on the highway stability is more important than turning radius for parking and although there were only a minority of failures if the pin in the tags broke or slipped out of place even the most experienced driver could not control the vicious shaking in the rear end-also a driver should have at least 3 full safe years with a bus alone before giving them the priviledge to haul a trailer
at 23:02 on March 30th, 2009
Trentway Wagar in Toronto welded the tags so that stability would not be lost by a turning tag axle failure
should be a wake up call-three dead passengers should not have died
Our Government should outlaw all moveable tags on commercial passenger vehicles
travelling more than 60km/hr on our roadways
The purpose of a trailing axle(tags) was to add stability to the vehicle
Allowing them to turn takes stability out of the equation