r/11foot8 • u/monter72 • Jul 22 '25

School bus crash in England

https://x.com/kiernanmb/status/1947365611933237711
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u/solstice035 Jul 22 '25

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1lj31l6rm1o

20 injured, 3 seriously

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u/MarvinParanoAndroid Jul 22 '25

This is incredibly sad.

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u/apcolleen Jul 22 '25

And there are hanging chains BEFORE the bridge to show you are over height and they still just kept hitting the gas.

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u/pacmanic Jul 22 '25

…the 100 service bus was "not taking its usual route", a TFGM spokesman said.

Given it’s a school bus and also not a detour route, crazy this happens. Hopefully the driver was drug tested.

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u/Peterd1900 Jul 22 '25

Its not a school bus though

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u/Queermagedd0n 16d ago

This comment is giving AI. Just because it's yellow doesn't mean it's a school bus.

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u/Any-Ad-5373 Jul 22 '25

Not a school bus, just a regular city double decker bus

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u/grumpy_pants Jul 22 '25 edited Jul 22 '25

It's a bus route specifically for a school run for pupils attending said school.

Edited to add I got confused between this bus crash and the other one that's just happened! Can we please stop ramming buses into bridges please

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u/BillabobGO Jul 22 '25

"The force said a 19-year-old woman, and two men, one aged in his 20s and another in his 40s, sustained serious injuries and remain in hospital in a stable condition."

Sounds unlikely mate

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u/Any-Ad-5373 Jul 22 '25 edited Jul 22 '25

Is it? I’m pretty sure it’s not, although I might be wrong.

https://tfgm.com/travel-updates/live-departures/bus/100-shudehill?active_tab=map+view

No mention of it being a school bus in any of the news articles.

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u/TheChrisD Jul 22 '25

No, if you look at the Bee Network for Manchester, you'll see that the school run bus routes have numbers in the high hundreds.

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u/grumpy_pants Jul 22 '25

Yes they're run by tfgm and are on the bee network. Technically regular people can get on them but I think that's only when there's confusion

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u/Outside-Mongoose8576 Jul 23 '25

It’s not a school service. The 100 is Warrington to Manchester via Trafford Centre and Salford. I work for the company and have driven the route, it’s never been a school service

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u/BorreVerdoes Jul 22 '25

Holy cow, i hope no one got decapitated...

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u/YetAnotherInterneter Jul 22 '25

It was a canal bridge too! Not something you want to drive into. It’s already very bad, but could have been a lot worse

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u/MrT735 Jul 22 '25

What's that noise? Better keep going, oh good, the noise has stopped.

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u/ChipmunkObvious2893 Jul 22 '25

FWOAK!

Made me chuckle. That said, why does the driver keep driving? Did they not notice?

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u/vintagecomputernerd Jul 22 '25

HAHA SERIOUS INJURIES ARE SO FUNNY