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If duplicate thread pls advise ~~


https://youtu.be/PKTn9xYae7U

A bus carrying a group of high-school students who had just returned from a spring-break trip to Europe slammed into an overpass on a Long Island highway Sunday night, leaving the roof torn off.
The charter bus crashed at about 9 p.m. into the low bridge in Lakeview on the Southern State Parkway — where such vehicles are restricted from traveling — severely injuring at least six people, one critically, law-enforcement sources said.

https://nypost.com/2018/04/08/bus-crashes-on-highway-in-long-island/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFA9jlkyIn0
 
Bus with students hits parkway overpass in Lakeview, cops say

The students range in age from 16 to 18 and attend various high schools on Long Island, police said.

https://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/southern-state-bus-crash-overpass-1.17928656

A bus carrying 38 high school students and five chaperones crashed into a Southern State Parkway overpass Sunday night during the final leg of the group’s journey home to Long Island from a spring break trip to Europe, seriously injuring two people, State Police said.
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“It’s a high-impact strike,” Candelaria said. “He made it all the way through.”
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bbm
 
We traveled all over the U.S. in our 5th wheel RV for 8 years. There are guides listing roads that trucks and RVs shouldn’t travel for various reason, clearance being one. It is your responsibility to do the research and know where you can and can’t go. And you absolutely must know the highest point of your rig. If you come to an overpass too low to pass under, you stop! Duh! This driver was going fast enough to go all the way through, peeling off the top of the bus. He must have ignored signs that he shouldn’t even be on the parkway as well as the clearance sign of the bridge he went under. Being from NJ or PA is no excuse. Poor passengers! Big lawsuit ahead!

Here is a graphic poster about staying off NY state parkways.

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/trucks_nycarea_parkways.pdf
 
CARIIS said:
If duplicate thread pls advise ~~


https://youtu.be/PKTn9xYae7U

A bus carrying a group of high-school students who had just returned from a spring-break trip to Europe slammed into an overpass on a Long Island highway Sunday night, leaving the roof torn off.
The charter bus crashed at about 9 p.m. into the low bridge in Lakeview on the Southern State Parkway — where such vehicles are restricted from traveling — severely injuring at least six people, one critically, law-enforcement sources said.

https://nypost.com/2018/04/08/bus-crashes-on-highway-in-long-island/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFA9jlkyIn0
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Absolutely terrible. I'm beginning to think that being on a bus is not as safe as I thought.... those poor kids.
 
Lilibet said:
We traveled all over the U.S. in our 5th wheel RV for 8 years. There are guides listing roads that trucks and RVs shouldn’t travel for various reason, clearance being one. It is your responsibility to do the research and know where you can and can’t go. And you absolutely must know the highest point of your rig. If you come to an overpass too low to pass under, you stop! Duh! This driver was going fast enough to go all the way through, peeling off the top of the bus. He must have ignored signs that he shouldn’t even be on the parkway as well as the clearance sign of the bridge he went under. Being from NJ or PA is no excuse. Poor passengers! Big lawsuit ahead!

Here is a graphic poster about staying off NY state parkways.

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/trucks_nycarea_parkways.pdf
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i never thought about that angle that he was going so fast that he sheared all the way through and then look at how far apparently went after chopping his bus off
 
[FONT=&amp] 38 students, whose ages ranged from 16 to 18, were from various Long Island high schools and had been traveling with five chaperones,

[/FONT][FONT=&amp]N.J.-based Journey Bus Lines.

[/FONT][FONT=&amp]driver, Troy Gaston, of Bethlehem, Pa., told police he was unaware of commercial vehicle restrictions on the parkway. The minimum clearance on the parkway is 7 feet and 10 inches.[/FONT]
[FONT=&amp]Gaston was also hospitalized, according to police. [/FONT]

http://abc7ny.com/top-of-bus-sheared-off-dozens-hurt-on-long-island/3318458/

[FONT=&amp] 37 more suffered minor injurie

[/FONT] bus was headed to a mall

The roof of the bus is down to the top of the seat covers.”

Newsday reported that plans were in the works for an electronic system that would warn drivers when vehicles are too high for an overpass on the parkway. The system, already in place on the Northern State Parkway, triggers an alert on an overhead electronic road sign that warns the driver to pull over. It also alerts State Police of the vehicle, the paper said.

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[/FONT][FONT=&amp]students were returning home from John F. Kennedy International Airport when the bus crashed into the overpass, mangling the roof and trapping one person.[/FONT]
[FONT=&amp]“Everybody was able to walk out except one, which we extricated,”

roof of the bus is down to the top of the seat covers,” McNeill said.

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Charter bus was four feet taller than overpass it slammed into


sign posted by the state on the overpass on the eastbound Southern at the Exit 18 says the clearance is 7 feet, 7 inches.

Two people suffered serious injuries, five others suffered what were described as moderate and the rest were minor, police

Gaston, is not from New York and did not seem aware of the rule. Gaston is from Pennsylvania.

well, this makes no sense

yellow sign on the eastbound Southern State before the overpass at Exit 18 in Lakeview warns of a 10-foot clearance approaching. A sign posted on the overpass says the clearance at its lowest point is 7 feet, 7 inches.

lowest, probably, on the whole parkway system, this specific bridge,”

bus manufacturer
http://prevost-stuff.com/forsale/public_list_ads.php

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Journey Bus Lines has had zero crashes in the past 24 months and has a safety rating of “satisfactory.”

The Southern State, like other New York parkways, has overpasses that are lower than the standard legal bridge clearance — a feature that has led to hundreds of bridge strikes through the years. Charter buses, tractor trailers, school buses and other tall vehicles are prohibited from the parkways.

https://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/bus-crash-southern-state-overpass-1.17936277



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I grew up on LI, i left at 49. this is so clearly labeled again and again on all the parkways. not knowing the "rule" is no excuse. that bus is unbelievable wow.

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A non-commercial stand-alone GPS?!! On a commercial Prevost (pronounced pray-voe) bus?! Why wasn’t there a built-in commercial GPS? Huge fail on the part of the bus company. Prevost buses are huge and are also made into luxury motor homes (link below), and I can’t imagine driving one without a commercial GPS. We used a regular GPS when traveling in our RV, but we always double-checked in our truck guides if we went off the Interstate, which we preferred to do. I can’t tell you how many overpasses we saw with signs of a collision on the under side by an unwary driver.

Police say that driver, 43-year-old Troy Gaston, of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, expressed remorse over the accident. He did possess a valid Pennsylvania commercial vehicle driver's license, but police said he was using a non-commercial GPS that may have played a factor.

[FONT=&amp]"It was a stand-alone GPS that you would buy from a department store," New York State Police Major David C. Candelaria said.

[/FONT]http://abc7ny.com/top-of-bus-sheared-off-dozens-hurt-on-long-island/3318458/

https://www.marathoncoach.com/
 
So how did the driver get to the JFK airport without encountering this overpass?
 
AlwaysShocked said:
So how did the driver get to the JFK airport without encountering this overpass?
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Do you mean when they left for Europe? It could be they didn’t go to JFK on this bus. Or used a different route that’s allowed. The bus company is based in NJ, so the driver could have gotten to JFK from NJ if all he was doing was picking them up. Supposedly, he didn’t know the parkway rules in NY. I kind of expect a driver of a rig that big to know where it can be driven.
 
silversurvivor said:
I grew up on LI, i left at 49. this is so clearly labeled again and again on all the parkways. not knowing the "rule" is no excuse. that bus is unbelievable wow.

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Yes, I grew up in NJ, lived there for 28 years, and moved to Long Island a couple of years ago. There is NO WAY this driver didn’t see the abundant signs. Seriously, there are signs everywhere, more than in NJ for that matter. Plus, if the driver just from jersey, in NJ it’s common knowledge that turnpike is for cars and commercial vehicles - trucks, buses, etc, and parkway is for cars only.

Eta - just saw the driver is from PA and I can’t comment on PA roadways bc I don’t know enough. But that does not negate the fact that there are signs all over on Long Island highways.
 
Lilibet said:
Do you mean when they left for Europe? It could be they didn’t go to JFK on this bus. Or used a different route that’s allowed. The bus company is based in NJ, so the driver could have gotten to JFK from NJ if all he was doing was picking them up. Supposedly, he didn’t know the parkway rules in NY. I kind of expect a driver of a rig that big to know where it can be driven.
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I think OP may have meant when he picked them up from the airport.

If he was coming from jersey, he probably would not have had to encounter the overpass imo. Just a guess, as I really don’t know what route he took.
 
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