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
SBS9612B back in service..spotted at Boon Lay Int today, EDS
off