Luckily sgbuses helped me by backing up with that pic of that
'famous' 8074K accident.So looking at that pic,that damage is
pretty little for u eh?Almost the whole head is gone.Honestly to
say,TIB1138M is the bus which shld have suffered the most damage as
it was rammed in the rear which is the most vital part for it
since it's engine is located there.And amazingly,TIB1138M got
repaired faster and came out faster then this bus all thanks to the
experience of SMRT and not to mention the strong solid body of a
famous European bodywork.This stupid bus just a small ram and the
whole head is torn open so easily like a plastic taperware.So just
imagine.If 900 of this type of accidents had happened,would u still
be backing up for ur gemilang?
Thanks to sgbuses for the help anyway.Greatly appreciate it.
Has it occur to anyone here that the reason for the damage might
due to the structure of the low floor chassis that might cause it
to "dive" beyond a higher chassis platform, which causes the
frontal damage to be more prominent??? This causes the front part
of the chassis of a low floor bus to diverge below another chassis
which has a higher platform, hence cause more substaintial
frontal damage. Moreover a moving object tends to sustain
higher damages when hitting a stationary object, because of the
impact forces. Think about it.
Sadly to say this kind of automobile bodywork
technology has already existant in modern cars already
and is tested and proven. To bus operators, it helps to reduce
weight and hence reduce fuel consumption. Drawback is that a more
sustaintial damage is inevitable because structure is used for
impact forces absorption. Impact absorption is the key to modern
automobile bodywork in the modern automobile technology era. Has it
ever ocurred to you all that despite the bus having suffered from
that degree of damage, the bus captain only suffer a broken leg,
instead of being killed at such levels of frontal damage???
Thus it is not just the 900 KUBs that will have this kind of
problem as well, but the 133 OCs as well, as they all use Gemilang
bodyworks. There is nothing much we can really do since our local
GLC linked bus operators wants to choose Malaysian bodyworks as
their bus body builders, in order of gaining higher profitabiliy,
rather than the well being of the general public. Rather than
just arguing here, wwhy not to give
your feedback to SBST and SMRT instead on why they choose
Gemilang???
If you look at China automobiles, it would be much more worse.
Look at the crash tests of China cars, it will really scare many
people. But at least the bus has been duly repaired and back on
service now instead of being scrapped, after the period of
necessary and responsible investigation, instead of sub standard
repairing works and back to service without much proper tests
for assurance.
even if another habit hit TIB1138M the same way at same speed,
the habit will have suffer the same damage as SBS8074K. The back
part of the habit is the engine portion.. and any bus travelling at
50km hit suddenly onto another bus will suffer severe damage. And
for SBS8074K, the fire fighters have CUT OUT the front part of the
bus to rescue the BC. the actual damage is not that severe. pls go
and read through the archive first.
Such kinds of accidents won't have happened if not for SMRTB's
demanding runtime schedules which causes drivers to speed or/and
driving recklessly in order to be on time for the timetables.
