These are the photos of a big crash happened today on a street where I drive with "my" bus, near the city center of Milan, in front of the courthouse. Here the public transit vehicles have reserved lanes in the middle of the street while normal traffic go on the external lanes, a big SUV invaded the reserved lane while a bus (that is exactly the kind of bus that i drive) was travelling in the same direction. The bus driver, in order to avoid the crash with the SUV invaded the opposite lane while the tram was incoming. Actually both my collegues are in very bad conditions, a woman was dead and 26 injuried. Well, this is what my job includes, mainly due to the boorishness of my country fellowmen , walking and driving randomly with very low controls by the police. I pass there everyday, today I received a dispatch that said to deviate, as usually happens when a crash happens. Could this one happen to me ? maybe, but I doubt it. Even if is it was not the fault of the bus driver, in my opinion he wouldn't have to steer left to avoid the car. It's a matter of milliseconds, besides I would not have steered, I know it because I had the same scenario some times, one time a car invaded the lane in the same way, the result was that I turned over the car with the bus and I had no injured on the bus (only small bruises for the car driver, but the car, that was a chevrolet, became a pile of metal to scrap, with the engine in the middle of the road). Another time I was travelling a crossroad with the green light when a pedestrian begin to cross the street. In front of me the bus in the opposite direction was coming. I could only steer a little and use what was possible to use of the brakes without injuring the people pn the bus, this resulted in the pedestrian hit and driven back on the sidewalk with some fractures. I had some of the same kind in my "career" as a bus driver and even if it was not my fault every time is a shock and some new white hairs, This is why I'll partecipate in the next selections in order to change role...
The pictures are very graphic , you're warned...
http://www.corriere.it/vivimilano/g...bbraio/tram/2&1
http://www.corriere.it/vivimilano/g...bbraio/tram/1&1
the SUV
http://www.corriere.it/Primo_Piano/...4/pop_suv.shtml
video (in italian) with some witnesses interviews...
http://tv.repubblica.it/home_page.p...r&cont_id=17335
http://mediacenter.corriere.it/Medi...3f-0003ba99c667