Bus Crash - Double Decker Bus to tall, Crashes Into Bridge

[JimTLonW6]

Never mind the bus, what about the bridge??

[ezhacker2]

Bus Crash - Double Decker Bus to the tall, Crashes Into Bridge

[decline2state]

This reminds me of the time on "Hee Haw" when Junior Samples advertised a "1980 Greyhound bus convertible." He explained that it got that way when the driver tried to go under a low bridge. He offered to sell it to a "family of giraffes," and even said they could call BR-549 collect.

LOL

[atomicnortherner]

to america, swindon, hull, newcastle birmingham, liverpool, brighton IS london. Americans dont get that although on the map england is small it is still big

[TheDylanJoyce]

they did it on purpose for a test. notice no people in the bus, not only because no people.

[ghpg2008]

That bus is a Bristol VRT which never operated with London Transport, they are of an NBC standard design although they do in one way or another resemble the great British iconic red bus that is the Routemaster.

[PIVOTR3LIC]

Why would Americans make this advert?!

[JoeytheDon1000]

@PIVOTR3LIC because they're dumb. this was probably american propaganda to make out britain has terrible drivers.

[1yoyo105]

that was a test! look at the original from diagonaluk!!!

[bethanjaynexx]

thats not london, thats swindon :)

[SLR2810]

hahaha

[MCLOG125]

lol rouven xD

[SLR2810]

opfer alda ^^

[traktorensteff]

Poor bus! They should not do that with an beautiful old bus.

[leylandlynx196]

that is a set up

[VOAD99]

Well it actually was mate...

[gmSpaceDawg]

Dude, read the description... it was a demonstration.

[leylandlynx196]

lol i did thats y i said it was a set up.

[thawoodster]

lmfao! wht a stupid bas!

[piggydeath]

owned

[baisldla]

This was not in london it was staged in Swindon wiltshire. It was driven by a stunt man and was a stunt to show what not to do on a training vid !!!!!

[sikkko1]

I love the comments, all of you are so busy flaming each other that you do not realise that this is a staged movie to demonstrate exactly what happens. Anyway if you are all English then you are all mongrels anyway.

[1972volkswagen]

It is pretty funny to read the comments. It's obviously staged-what are the chances that someone has a camera and films an empty old bus on a clear street going over the speed limit ram into a bridge?

[KooKas2oo8]

English kick ass, shut up you cunt with your midget-ass single-deckers!

[lilgayboi2008]

to clear things up the comentator got it wrong, the bridge is infact whitehouse bridge in swindon the bus was one of the old thamesdown transport ltd buses that had just been decomisiond and was driven into the bridge as part of a driver safety video the bus traveling along station road then turning left to go under the bridge which would then bring it out onto the great western way anyone who disagres with this check it out on google earth the bridge is part of the route 11&15 service

[hundanth]

one word: ouch

[quince00]

can i just say thats not even london thats swindon lol

[NThusiast]

what´s the matter? This convertible bus can still be used for sightseeing tours ...

[doownref]

this isnt real, its a test, i saw it ontv a couple of years back

[AlonsoLegend]

When the Manchester companies were hiring cheap Polish drivers who could not read English, a top got taken off a double decker bus. That was when the government intervened lol!

[TonyBananas101]

And what had the Polish driver not being able to speak English got to do with the top getting taken of the bus you racist arsehole?

[AlonsoLegend]

I will address you in two points, and with considerably more courtesy than you have displayed.

1. I am not a racist for saying what happened in Manchester. That is literally the reportage of news, as I saw it on a BBC Panorama on the subject in 2006/2005. So if you were to call me racist for that, you would be calling Panorama racist. Go figure.

[TonyBananas101]

Low bridge signs in the UK display numerals and sometimes the text 'low bridge' it hardly requires a fluent grasp of English. Your original post (which you appear to have deleted) seemed to imply that bus companies were stupid to recruit Polish drivers which I would consider racist. And yes, perhaps Panorama were racist to a degree in their presentation of events. I would advise you that unquestionable acceptance of what you see or read in the media is foolish and a dangerous thing.

[AlonsoLegend]

I have not deleted it, it was written 5 months ago is the problem :P Indeed, never take the media at face value, as a politics student I make a point of not doing that. However, I concluded that Panorama was accurate enough in this case. I would stand by the view that bus companies are stupid to recruit Polish drivers BUT ONLY WHEN they cannot do their job to a professional standard. That applies to any person from any nation.

[TonyBananas101]

OK perhaps your statement was poorly worded and the implied racism unintentional. I withdraw my arsehole comment which was made in the heat of the moment.

[AlonsoLegend]

Good of you to do that, takes a lot to back down. Take care.

[Pyroman1990]

Alot of the busses on the road are 18+ years old and display feet and inches, where as the bridges are rgulary inspected and would have been made metric. Although they are hundreds of years old

[armours]

I agree, your comments were not racist. In West Yorkshire, we had a driver shortage, so we went to Poland to recruit drivers. They are now good drivers, but they struggle with the language. At first, some had to be re-educated in driving etiquette, because apparently in Poland, buses only stick to the main roads (In Halifax, we have double deck routes narrower than my driveway, I kid you not...) and on Polish roads, EVERYTHING gives way to buses - the opposite to the idiotic UK car "drivers".

[AlonsoLegend]

2. I should have said "read English" rather than "speak English" My point was the language barrier resulted in an inability to read the road signs correctly, resulting in the driver hitting the bridge. It was the company's responsibility for hiring the driver.

[AlonsoLegend]

Now that is not racist of me, thats just practical. Common sense. Eg, would you hire me to drive buses in China if I couldn't read Mandarin? I have 3 Polish friends, which I think would pose a major problem if I was racist. I hope this addresses your question.

[bairdeeni]

There was glass indeed. You can see light reflections on the windows.

[jaggass]

poor old bristol vr. the driver was more important

[subbb85]

should do that to all the new enviro 400's. awful cheap nasty things. and the old dennis dragons.

[leaderofearth]

That looks just like an impression of a scene from On The Busses.

[ukeyes]

This is a trainig video set up by the bus company!! Notice how all the glass has been removed from the bus windows!!

[dom69anderson]

my 7 year old brother was watching this and commented "now that's what you call a bus stop"!!!!!!!!

[DeepGrey]

I saw this on TV... there's another part to the video with a camera inside the top deck.

[bugio22]

yeah a guy called "MyUsersName" uploaded the full vid you should check it out. for some reason his videos dont show up on his chanel so search for his name in the search feature.

[richietiptop]

was that real

[Nmemonicus]

Hey Loonies that was the best BRIDGE ever made OMG so there!

[graemeread]

its like the bus went into the bridge

[loonies125]

omg them gits that was a bristol vr :( theyre the best buses ever made, and the train at the start is the best trian ever made

[02jwinter]

amen. mind u, i suppose that is the fastest open top conversion ever performed lol

[WillEvansMedia]

That actually heppened near where i used to live in barnsley, S Yorkshire lol

[rukii]

.Cool

[cyberjunky]

UK short for the United Kingdom is as the title states a union between the kingdoms of England, Wales and Scotland. UK is the country, Britain is the name given to the land captured and owned by the UK thusly the British Empire.

[fellside13]

No it isn't. Great britain only includes England,Wales,Scotland & Northern Ireland.

[cyberjunky]

I found out a couple months back i was wrong about that, nevermind aye, i would remove the comment but apparantly you cant, i dont see how you can remove them.

[doownref]

Great britain doesnt include north. Ireland. Thats the United Kingdom

[Acorbietto]

You my friend, are a jackass.

[doownref]

me? i live in uk i think i should know

[Acorbietto]

crud wrong place

sorry

:L

[doownref]

oh lol

[scottishlowoflow]

it would actually be London, BRITAIN

[JosephPage]

No, London is the capital of England. Britain (or Great Britain) is the name for the area that includes England, Scotland, Ireland, and maybe some other places which I can't remember at the moment.

[Forcefield23]

No it shouldn't.

[s049031]

dont worry its fake, saw it on tv, they are just testing the durability of the top floor of a double-decker...

[milliesos]

iwondnt woner be sat up stairs i like my head were it is thanks i dont woner be carryin it ronud in my arms lol

[Huskerboy4life]

wow