24 Dead India Bus Crash

[Faraday]

At least 25 people were killed and eight others injured after a bus caught fire on an expressway in western India, police said.

The injured, including the bus driver, have been admitted to a hospital near the site of the crash in Maharashtra state, about 250 miles (400km) east of India’s financial capital, Mumbai. Three children were among the dead, a police officer said.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/01/dozens-dead-in-western-india-bus-crash

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https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news

[KaptainRob]

A tragic accident with a similar number of victims to the NSW, Aus, bus that overturned recently and smeared victims across the road.  Incineration would have to be an even worse way to go.  Long distance coach travel is best avoided IMO.

[oldschooler]

11 hours ago, KaptainRob said:

A tragic accident with a similar number of victims to the NSW, Aus, bus that overturned recently and smeared victims across the road.  Incineration would have to be an even worse way to go.  Long distance coach travel is best avoided IMO.

My Thai family Banned from all Boat Bus Bike travel. Car Only. UK Family strongly advised same. 

[Karolyn]

If you've ever visited India, the buses get very, very crowded. Intercity buses are fine. But I can't use an Indian bus

[cowslip]

Travelling by coach is statistically one of the safest ways you can get from A to B by road.

Unfortunately in places like India and Thailand the construction of buses is not up to very high safety standards but in a sad way thety are on a level playing field with all other road users and still come out as the "safest means of transport.

- the problem is with any bus crash there are likely to be multlple injuries either minor, serious or fatal and the media tends to ghoulishly report this.

What is required is extensive driver training, improvement of vehicle technology and strictly enforced regulations.

In the EU coaches are designed to safely transport high volumes of passengers across large distances. so the result is that In  coaches and buses are easily the safest form of road transport although you still hear reports of multiple deaths when they do crash - but the statistics show that the death per passenger rates are much lower than other road users.

[Karolyn]

Buses of India, excluding the intercity varieties, are so crowded it's unbelievable. I love India, but not her buses.

And even on an intercity bus, I got groped. Something more usually associated, with Japan or the US, rather than India. 

[TheDirtyDurian]

7 hours ago, Karolyn said:

Buses of India, excluding the intercity varieties, are so crowded it's unbelievable. I love India, but not her buses.

And even on an intercity bus, I got groped. Something more usually associated, with Japan or the US, rather than India. 

Your seem to have something happen to you everywhere you go. 

Groped in India, masturbated over in Wales..... 

I'm starting to wonder

[WilliamG]

2 hours ago, TheDirtyDurian said:

Your seem to have something happen to you everywhere you go. 

Groped in India, masturbated over in Wales..... 

I'm starting to wonder

I have been to India and never been groped. I lived in Wales and nobody masturbated over me.

Come on, any more fantasies?

[oldschooler]

On 9/24/2023 at 3:54 PM, Karolyn said:

Buses of India, excluding the intercity varieties, are so crowded it's unbelievable. I love India, but not her buses.

And even on an intercity bus, I got groped. Something more usually associated, with Japan or the US, rather than India. 

Irrational to “ love India”. Heaving cesspit of rotten dirty people & culture. Churchill got it right “ beastly people, beastly culture”. No intelligent westerner uses buses there either or in any similar zero -safety crap countries.

Toured India myself once. Never again.Everywhere: Decay Stink Congestion Beggars Cripples Dumb Religions. Uncivilized. Backward. Immense Poverty. Little Sanitation. What the hell even EXPLAINS a literal shithole like India. After HighlyCivilized Indus Valley Civilization….. what happened to India ? 

[Poolie]

Churchill died in 1965, along with his dated ideas luckily.

I wonder who holds ideas that are 60 years old? They surely realise that the world has moved on.

[Vigo]

1 hour ago, Poolie said:

Churchill died in 1965, along with his dated ideas luckily.

I wonder who holds ideas that are 60 years old? They surely realise that the world has moved on.

Old Winston was not far off with many of his ideas that you dismiss. They were appropriate for the era and are still appropriate for certain circumstances. You don't like him because he was not a fan of communists nor socialists.

[cowslip]

2 hours ago, oldschooler said:

. What the hell even EXPLAINS a literal shithole like India. After HighlyCivilized Indus Valley Civilization….. what happened to India ?

Basically it was the Britsh colonialists and of course Churchill

[oldschooler]

4 hours ago, cowslip said:

Basically it was the Britsh colonialists and of course Churchill

Uk created & had built by 1947 a modern India  but it hasn’t moved on since then just got worse with uncontrolled selfish cultural breeding with no standards re. sanitation poverty housing. Knee deep in self crippled “business” beggars. Uk left 75 years ago ! 

[oldschooler]

6 hours ago, Poolie said:

Churchill died in 1965, along with his dated ideas luckily.

I wonder who holds ideas that are 60 years old? They surely realise that the world has moved on.

Some ideas are timeless like freedom democracy good vs evil.” time moves on” ?
Pathetic obvious phrase. Moves on to what ? Wokeness -Lies- Lower Standards……

[oldschooler]

7 hours ago, Poolie said:

Churchill died in 1965, along with his dated ideas luckily.

I wonder who holds ideas that are 60 years old? They surely realise that the world has moved on.

Regular conservative people with sense & standards.

even you, a withered old communist ratbag, adhering to 150 year old Marxism.
Back to your drugs you old Stalinist drone…..

[Wackamole]

On 9/24/2023 at 9:54 PM, Karolyn said:

groped. Something more usually associated, with Japan or the US, rather than India. 

I thought that was a well known issue in India. like they even had national campaigns against that?

[Karolyn]

11 hours ago, oldschooler said:

Irrational to “ love India”. Heaving cesspit of rotten dirty people & culture. Churchill got it right “ beastly people, beastly culture”. No intelligent westerner uses buses there either or in any similar zero -safety crap countries.

Toured India myself once. Never again.Everywhere: Decay Stink Congestion Beggars Cripples Dumb Religions. Uncivilized. Backward. Immense Poverty. Little Sanitation. What the hell even EXPLAINS a literal shithole like India. After HighlyCivilized Indus Valley Civilization….. what happened to India ? 

Personally, I love India. I live Delhi,