Yikes ! It must have been going quite fast to pass the point of equilibrium. The main weight being with the rear mounted engine means the tipping point would have been getting on for 3/5ths of the length of the bus ... kudos to the driver, 10 points for effort. Was it a school bus ? School bus routes being serviced mainly only at crepuscular times means often part timers are employed for those routes, that means old fogeys like me, you know, shaking at the hands, vision only good for long lost memories, urgent and often need of toilet facilities leasing to scant attention being paid.
If you look closer, that certainly appears like the driver's compartment at the far left of the bus; also, if you look above the left-hand set of wheels, it appears that we can see a seat back in a position which also seems to indicate that the front of the bus is to the left and is still hung up on the roadway. This means that the bus was traveling in reverse when it went off the edge of whatever that abutment/embankment is.
Or it was coming from the right at a high rate of speed in an attempt to do a "Dukes of Hazzard" or "Smokey and the Bandit"-style jump across the gap and didn't qui-i-ite make it...
Yikes ! It must have been going quite fast to pass the point of equilibrium. The main weight being with the rear mounted engine means the tipping point would have been getting on for 3/5ths of the length of the bus ... kudos to the driver, 10 points for effort.
ReplyDeleteWas it a school bus ? School bus routes being serviced mainly only at crepuscular times means often part timers are employed for those routes, that means old fogeys like me, you know, shaking at the hands, vision only good for long lost memories, urgent and often need of toilet facilities leasing to scant attention being paid.
If you look closer, that certainly appears like the driver's compartment at the far left of the bus; also, if you look above the left-hand set of wheels, it appears that we can see a seat back in a position which also seems to indicate that the front of the bus is to the left and is still hung up on the roadway. This means that the bus was traveling in reverse when it went off the edge of whatever that abutment/embankment is.
ReplyDeleteOr it was coming from the right at a high rate of speed in an attempt to do a "Dukes of Hazzard" or "Smokey and the Bandit"-style jump across the gap and didn't qui-i-ite make it...
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