RORO Bus and Ford Everest Road Mishap

[gongrhey]

If you frequently doing long drive in the provinces, my advise is to invest in a garmin gps.
It will at least give you a perspective of what the road looks like ahead.
It will also give you an idea on where is the best part of the road to overtake.
The gps will not show you the oncoming vehicles but it will at least guide you if your making a risky pass.
I even created waypoints of all train crossing as a proximity alert, warns me if im nearing a crossing, so I can slow down.

this is a good advise. at least alam mo na kung sharp curve, long curve or blind curve ang road ahead of you. meron pa nga dyan yung sharp curve na pag nagkamali ka sa may dagat ang bagsak mo. marami na yata naaksidente dun. at isa pa nga rin ang mga railroad crossing. madalas din ako dati mag-byahe papuntang Bicol pero one time nakalimutan ko yung isang railroad crossing i planned to overtake yun pala RR crossing balik agad sa lane ko.

[renzo_d10]

Dyan nga ako natatakot sa concept na ganyan ng Pinoy eh. Kahit gaano ka-defensive driving mo kung may asshole naman na sasabay sayo ala rin. Kaya ganun nalang ang tapang ng mga naka-motor eh, mabunggo mo man sila, they wont be held liable for anything. Else, ikaw pa dapat magpagamot kapag nagka-injury siya even if it's not your fault in the first place. At pwede ka pa kasuhan. IMO this thinking is crap. The bus driver was just earning a living, it's a blind corner, no matter how slow the bus entered the curve mali pa rin ng Everest yun bec. He's the one overtakig and he's overtaking on a blind curve for god's sake. It's all too late for the bus driver, there's no way makakaiwas sya sa ganun. No way din para malaman nya na may paparating on his lane from a blind curve.

Kawawa lang sya. Just like the driver of the truck i saw on the news months ago. Nakahinto lang sya, binunggo sya sa likod ng motor ata... Mc rider died. May kaso pa yung truck driver. Just wow

[OTEP]

When we saw the post crash photos, the bus clearly started to pull off the road onto the shoulder. But the everest also thought the same.

Nasa pilipinas tayo. When two objects meet head on, both should move to their right. The everest moved left. Probably seeing the open shoulder,

[cocoy]

based on what you said sir otep.. the bus driver should be commended for what he did.. because if he turned to his left then he would have collided with the 2 buses that the everest overtook.. more people could have been hurt. condolence parin for the the SUV victims.

[OTEP]

I was also a victim of a head on collision in my younger days. A boy racer trying his old school sports car decided to do a hail mary pass. When i saw him, i just braked. But stupid guy plowed head on. I was driving a pretty large rig. He ended up with fractures, a punctured lung and numerous other injuries. Ako pa lumabas na masama.

Looking back, i wish i had thought fast enough and moved to the shoulder instead of just slowing down.

[vinj]

I was also a victim of a head on collision in my younger days. A boy racer trying his old school sports car decided to do a hail mary pass. When i saw him, i just braked. But stupid guy plowed head on. I was driving a pretty large rig. He ended up with fractures, a punctured lung and numerous other injuries. Ako pa lumabas na masama.

Looking back, i wish i had thought fast enough and moved to the shoulder instead of just slowing down.

Well, hindsight is always 20/20 right? We all learn from those kinds of things.

Astig din si boy racer eh... Escort yung pinag head-on niya sa LC70 mo right?

When a GMA cabinet (or ally-politico underling) and his Baguio-Manila bound convoy ran me off the road on McArthur several years ago, my evasive maneuver was also to bring my car to the right shoulder (while wishing they hit the truck behind me head-on but the truck also followed me to the side). To this very day, when i remember them, i always look out my office window and give them this little thought: "PI NIYO".

[shadow]

OB, so Ano proposal mo sa mga ganyan bus drivers?


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[cocoy]

grabe, i really cant understand pop3corn stance.. i think my mind is too slow to understand.. the driver of the bus got out unscratched kasi nga mas mabagal ang takbo nya compared to the SUV,and to add to that the bus was bigger and and SUV simply went under the bus.. anyways kaw na ang naka sakay sa bus kaya alam mo ang ng yari talaga sa accidente na yun..

[IMm29]

RIP to the victims. But I really think their (Everest) driver was at fault. Bus was at the wrong place, at the wrong time.

If I was in the bus driver's shoes, if I could, I would probably have slowed down. But get out of the way? Depends on how safe that would be for me and the 50+ passengers I'd have on board. Perhaps by getting out of the way I may have saved or prevented the death of some on board the Everest, but then that also could have meant I would have put more of my passengers at risk for an evasive manuever.

Why is it an SOP to detain the bus driver overnight again? Detain him to get his statement and investigate, ok understandable. But do you detain him in the same cell as a common criminal?

That ruling on the bigger vehicle always being at fault is in itself faulty.

[Optimusprime]

nakulong yung driver dahil may namatay SOP po yun, dko lang alam what's the point ni Mr popcorn blaming the driver of the bus..walang aral na mapupulot dito kungdi be a deffensive driver or else baka ikaw ang ikakahon at pupulutin ang katawan mo sa kangkungan..very clear na pagkakamali ng everest d nya inexercise ang defensive driving at d nya inanticipate yung risk sa pag overtake ng blind curve at may added bonus pang 3 bus...dmo rin mapapahinto yung bus na kasalubong mo baka pag nagpreno agad yun eh may posibilidad na mag swerve ang bus,sya naman ang head on.

[falken]

grabe, i really cant understand pop3corn stance.. i think my mind is too slow to understand.. the driver of the bus got out unscratched kasi nga mas mabagal ang takbo nya compared to the SUV,and to add to that the bus was bigger and and SUV simply went under the bus.. anyways kaw na ang naka sakay sa bus kaya alam mo ang ng yari talaga sa accidente na yun..

No, your mind is just normal.

[cast_no_shadow]

Baka nga nakasakay si OB sa bus?

[ghosthunter]

Baka nga nakasakay si OB sa bus?

Maybe OB was the 2nd guy on the grassy knoll?

[cocoy]

No, your mind is just normal.

thank you sa support sir. hehehe..