Unreliable GPS and faulty brakes blamed after scores injured in bus crash in Nan

[rooster59 18,799]

Unreliable GPS and faulty brakes blamed after scores injured in bus crash in Nan

 

 

Fifteen people were injured, one seriously, when a tour bus carrying forty cyclists crashed in Nan province in northern Thailand on Saturday morning.

 

According to Thai media, the bus had travelled from Samut Prakan to complete a cycling trip in Nan’s Pua district. 

However, the GPS system incorrectly directed the bus to Ban Luang district.

 

Realising the error, the driver turned the bus around in a bid to reach Pua district. As the bus was travelling down a steep slope on the way to the correct destination, the driver said the bus suddenly developed brake failure.
 

 

The only way to stop the bus plummeting down the mountainside was to swerve right, the driver said, which forced the bus to skid off the road and into an irrigation ditch.

 

Most of the injured received treatment for minor injuries at the scene. The driver was taken to Nan hospital, where his condition was described as serious.

 

The GPS system revealed the bus had been travelling at 38 km/h at the time of the accident.
 

Source: Chiang Mai News

 

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[Don Mega 9,626]

How was the GPS unreliable ?

 

Sound more like user error to me.

[unamazedloso 5,080]

Police test the brakes yet? These excuses are not good enough.

Start charging these idiot drivers with negligence or murder in cases that call for it and then and only then will things start to get better.

[RotBenz8888 18,527]

 

 

28 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

Unreliable GPS and faulty brakes

Never was a  human error in these cases

[Vacuum 14,704]

27 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

The GPS system revealed the bus had been travelling at 38 km/h at the time of the accident.

Yes but the GPS was faulty (according to the article) so the speed could have been much higher.

[MJKT2014 1,260]

27 minutes ago, Don Mega said:

How was the GPS unreliable ?

Made by foreigners innit? I wonder how reliable the amulets on the front dash were, not mentioned by the Thai media who were all over this story.

[Assurancetourix 17,725]

21 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

the driver said the bus suddenly developed brake failure.

Let's say brain failure ..
When you are a smart bus (or truck) driver, you don't need the brake pedal on a descent, even if it is long ...
Even if you have an automatic gearbox because it can still be used manually.
The driver still needs to know how the mechanics he has under his ass  work.

and then how did we do when the GPS did not exist?
We were staying at home?

This is surely what this imbecile driver should have done.

 

I wrote it in another article on this forum;
in the 1970s and 1980s, Italian trucks known as millipedes all ran over 100 tonnes with engines rarely exceeding 250 horsepower;
they climbed the mountain passes first small  and descended in the same way;

gearboxes with mechanical or electrical relays something that seems unknown to me in Thailand like the Telma electromagnetic retarder

always first small and retarder on the exhaust; you never saw their brake lights come on ... because they weren't using their brakes.

 

Driving a coach at the beginning of the 70' I had already that technology on my coach ;

a Chausson 110 horse power ..

Not this one but the same with which I made the Rennes - Fougeres line in France

 

from this site :

https://www.lineoz.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=17532&start=350

 

 

https://www.army-technology.com/contractors/armoured/ateco-equipment/pressreleases/telma-retarders/

[worgeordie 44,930]

46 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

said the bus suddenly developed brake failure.

A.K.A. brake fade ,going down hill, high gear,foot on brake,

instead of low gear ,no need to put foot on brake,use your

engine to slow down, BUT he was in a hurry.

regards Worgeordie

[sammieuk1 20,753]

How to loose your way in a one road to anywhere country and park your bus in the default position

[Oztruckie 406]

Just another braindead idiot who shouldn't be behind the steering wheel of a bus,brake failure my ass,brain failure more like it,obviously doesn't know what gearboxes are for or how to use them properly,and if TAT are wondering why there's less tourists coming here,well with all these tourist buses suffering brake failure,they make want to start looking at this problem along with all the other scams.

[RichardColeman 28,042]

I see the coach has Lamborghini written on the side - wonder if the driver was driving it like one ? 

[Matzzon 13,666]

Of course! Staying awake and looking at the road is totally overrated.

[bino 1,369]

I am amazed by how quickly Thai people have become dependent upon GPS to the same extent that they are dependent upon calculators.

Edited January 19, 2020 by bino

[Chazar 8,650]

Pah  you'd  really  think with all their  Thai  boffins  constantly inventing things before the rest of the world in a shed in nahkonnowhere they could  come up with an anti brake failsafe invention............maybe a lobotomy is easier?

[edwinchester 8,552]

Why use the word 'score' in a headline when you have zero idea of what it actually means?