Unknown VO3X on 179 accident in NTU at bus stop near School of
Biological Sciences. "Kissed" the bus stop..top deck
windscreen shattered..but damage dun seem to be serious...
Update on this
accident:
Bus invloved was SBS9612B.
Accident happened at 10am and it uprooted a lamp post. The lamp
post is trapped between the bus and the bus shelter roof, and could fall if
disturbed; leaking diesel from the bus has also
rendered the pavement slippery.
Many 179 were stuck
as the road was not really passable, and the campus red line had to
go into School of Biological Sciences (SBS) lobby to pick up
pax. Subsequent 179s were re-routed. 3 kinds of re-routes were
made:
1. Bus ends
at Blk 948 stop, enter Street 91 and loop and start trip again from
Blk 705 (same route as 241)
2. Bus ends
at Lee Wee Nam Library (BS 27211) in NTU, then goes straight into
Nanyang Cres (opp direction of 199) and exit NTU via main exit to
continue journey.
3. (heard
from BC) Single deck buses were deployed (epull) and some of them
were made to go thru SBS lobby...but then the only single deck bus
i saw was SBS8064P, epull from 243W, but BC of SBS8064P apparently
dun know where to go as he was epulled to do
179...
Road only cleared
at 120pm when SBS9612B was finally towed out. The first buses to
clear the road were SBS8064P and SBS3629T while the last bus to do
re-route was SBS3642D that did the re-route number 1 (attempted to
board this bus but BC say this bus dun go to NTU, later saw it
turned into Street 91).
At the moment
SBS3629T passed by the accident area (i was on this bus), police,
traffic police,NTU campus security and SBS Transit staff were still
there investigating the incident...
Dont understand,
this happen at an upslope, many 179s struggle to go up the slope
after stopping at the slope bus stop...and the impact at the
accident area seems to show the speed of bus was relatively
fast...
Damage to bus is
the front windows and the bumper area...damage to the bus looks not
serious....
Pictures in this
link:
https://www.facebook.com/ChronNTU?fref=ts