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International110
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 Posted - 05/31/2001 : 8:07:38 PM
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| A tractor trailer hit a loaded school bus in Mountainburg, Arkansas today, killing two students. The truck apparently swerved off the road and hit the Blue Bird conventional, seperating the chassis from the body. Other students and both drivers were injured and their conditions are unknown at this time by myself. |
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Captain Larz
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 06/01/2001 : 09:59:25 AM
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I seem to remember an accident about 6 years ago in Fox River Grove, IL where a blue bird conventional body separated from the chasis. Maybe blue bird should be looking into this.
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Ricky
Advanced Member
USA
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Posted - 06/01/2001 : 10:11:29 AM
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I thought that the school bus involved in the Fox River Grove accident was an AmTran? I could be wrong. Someone once told me that the buses are built so that the chassis and body separate in an extreme crash, like the one in Mountainburg and Fox River Grove. Has anyone else heard of this before?
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MrBusDriver
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 06/01/2001 : 11:29:26 AM
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I seem to remember an accident about 6 years ago in Fox River Grove, IL where a blue bird conventional body separated from the chasis. Maybe blue bird should be looking into this.
That was not a BB in Fox River Grove. It was an AmTran Conventional ...all conventionals are designed to do that in a heavy collision -- not a mfg defect as it may seem.
 Mr Bus Driver
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John Farr
Top Member
USA
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Posted - 06/01/2001 : 11:44:55 AM
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Actually all school buses manufactured today have separate bodies and chassis which are attached with body mounting bolts. In serious collisions, especially frontal-type, the body will tend to slide forward on the chassis rails, or the body will partly or completely detach from the chassis. When the body slides forward the driver can be placed in greater jeopardy than the students.
To my knowledge, only Gillig, Crown and TAM built buses where the body and chassis were intregal - and all are now out of the school bus market.
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JK
Top Member
USA
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Posted - 06/01/2001 : 2:26:31 PM
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A tractor trailer hit a loaded school bus in Mountainburg, Arkansas today, killing two students.
The Shawnee (Oklahoma) News-Star just reported that a high-school student was killed and two younger children were critically injured Thursday when a school bus and a tractor-trailer collided at the bottom of a steep Interstate 540 exit ramp near the Oklahoma-Arkansas border:
http://www.news-star.com/stories/060101/new_accident.shtml
But the The Cabin Press (MOUNTAINBURG, Ark.) and others reported two students were killed and seven children were injured Thursday when a tractor-trailer broadsided a school bus at the bottom of a steep Interstate 540 exit ramp.
http://thecabin.net/stories/060101/sta_0601010068.shtml
(jk)
IN LOVING MEMORY:
http://www.geocities.com/2safeschools/ilmem1.htm
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International110
Active Member
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Posted - 06/02/2001 : 11:39:07 AM
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JK, the latter it true, about the two students being killed as reported by The Cabin Press.
INTERNATIONAL--"The Brilliance of Common Sense" |
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JK
Top Member
USA
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Posted - 06/02/2001 : 11:42:40 AM
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JK, the latter it true, about the two students being killed as reported by The Cabin Press.
INTERNATIONAL--"The Brilliance of Common Sense"
Thanks, (jk)
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BusBoy
Top Member
USA
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Posted - 06/02/2001 : 9:05:28 PM
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You mean to tell me that there are Blue Bird Buses in Arkansas!!!...lol
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Frank, Bus #150
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 06/08/2001 : 9:17:56 PM
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"I thought that the school bus involved in the Fox River Grove accident was an AmTran?"
The bus involved in the crash was a Blue Bird.
I drive for that school district and have also frequently "subbed" that route.
Frank, Bus #150 (Also a Blue Bird)
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Mountainburg, AR School Bus Accident
