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Bus explosion n Yokine
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From The West Australian website:
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/br ... n-suburbs/
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/br ... n-suburbs/
A driver was forced to flee from a Transperth bus when it burst into flames in Yokine this afternoon throwing a quiet suburban street into disarray.
The incident occurred about 2.30pm at the intersection of Raymond Street and Hayes Street near the West Australian Golf Club.
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I fear that the relationship between DaimlerChrysler and the WA Public Transport Authority may be coming to an end. Isnt this the fourth occassion!
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"It'll buff out!"richard omeara wrote:Heres some snaps.As you can see not much left.
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Thanks Richard, gee gas tanks look big.
15 mins after the incident i was talking to the transperth info line about bus times, and mentioned that I saw the bus fire on 7 News, the guys said "who told you that" and then said "nope, we would have heard about it otherwise".????
Wonder how they are going to clean it up? or transport that thing away?, its not like it can be put on a bus tip tow truck......
15 mins after the incident i was talking to the transperth info line about bus times, and mentioned that I saw the bus fire on 7 News, the guys said "who told you that" and then said "nope, we would have heard about it otherwise".????
Wonder how they are going to clean it up? or transport that thing away?, its not like it can be put on a bus tip tow truck......
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I would speculate it just gets put on a large flatbed, maybe by crane, again just speculating. At worst placed as an oversized load on a truck.
Got to say though it barely looks like a bus anymore, half of it has simply turned to smoke
One things for sure though, the driver won't need to tell the depot that the data/card readers are out of order
Got to say though it barely looks like a bus anymore, half of it has simply turned to smoke
One things for sure though, the driver won't need to tell the depot that the data/card readers are out of order
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What I cant get is how did it become so ingulfed in flames, Im not sure if there is that much flamable matierial inside. the seats mayby but they dont even have much cusioning compared to the 80s renault buses.
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paint, plastics, timber floors, mdf type sides...there's a bit to burn
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There is no timber floors on the Mercedes Benz 0405OC varients. The problem more than likely resulted in the CNG fuel system which runs alot hotter than the diesel varients.Tyranus wrote:paint, plastics, timber floors, mdf type sides...there's a bit to burn
Bus mentioned is/was TP 1854
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Re: Bus explosion n Yokine
Apparently the problem was leaking hot oil in the engine compartment, this has also been the reason for a previous fire on a gas bus.
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Split pipe leaked hot oil onto hot turbo. Same as with 1877 1610 and 1297
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The previous fires were caused by poor welding quality used in the design of the turbocharger oil supply line. This design fault was the subject of a massive Australia-wide recall shortly after the fire on 1610. The line was prone to rupture and when hot oil leaks onto a hot turbocharger, the inevitable is bound to occur. I suspect that the fires wouldn't have occured if this oil supply line was rerouted so that any leaking fluids would leak directly onto the road.
Believe that 1854 was something different, but ties in with the above.
Believe that 1854 was something different, but ties in with the above.
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Thanks for that written_fiction. I agree with re-routing the oil line, could work quite well
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