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  • 15
    May
    2012
    4:20pm, EDT

    Holland's 'Superbus' project aims to transport people at 150 miles per hour

    Frank Van Beek / EPA

    Melanie Schultz van Haegen-Maas Geesteranus, Dutch Minister of Infrastructure and Enviroment, drives Wubbo Ockels Superbus in Valkenburg, The Netherlands on 15 May 2012 after the RWD, the institution that provides the registration of motor vehicles, provided the registration for the bus. The Superbus project aims to develop high speed coaches capable of speeds of up to 250 kilometres per hour (160 mph) together with the supporting infrastructure including special highway lanes constructed separately next to the nation's highways.

    Frank Van Beek / EPA

    Melanie Schultz van Haegen-Maas Geesteranus (L), Dutch Minister of Infrastructure and Enviroment and Dutch physicist Wubbo Ockels (R) sit inside Ockels' Superbus in Valkenburg.

    Frank Van Beek / EPA

    Melanie Schultz van Haegen-Maas Geesteranus, Dutch Minister of Infrastructure and Enviroment places a license plate on Wubbo Ockels' Superbus in Valkenburg.

    According to the project's web site, the bus is electrically powered and weighs 20,000 lbs.

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    Please tell me that they won't allow female drivers in that damn thing?

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  • 12
    Mar
    2012
    11:51am, EDT

    Driver and student die in Indianapolis school bus crash

    Michael Conroy / AP

    Investigators look over the scene of a fatal school bus crash on the southeast side of Indianapolis, Monday, March 12. The driver and one student were killed and two other critically injured.

    Bill Mccleery / The Indianapolis Star

    At least one person died March 12, 2012 in a school bus accident on the southeast side of Indianapolis.The accident occurred in the 900 block of South Emerson Avenue near English Avenue.

     

    By msnbc.com news services

    A bus driver and a student were killed Monday morning when a school bus crashed into a bridge outside of Indianapolis, NBC affiliate WTHR reports.

    Ten other students were injured after the bus struck a bridge support beam on the city's east side, officials said. Two of the injured students are listed in critical condition.

     For more on the story click here.

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  • 15
    Dec
    2011
    10:31pm, EST

    Officer comforts woman pinned by bus in Utah

    Kevin Conde / AP

    West Valley City police officer Kevin Peck wedged between an icy street and the undercarriage of a commuter bus clutching hands with badly injured Aryann Smith.

    AP reports:

    A photo captures West Valley City officer Kevin Peck wedged between an icy street and the undercarriage of a commuter bus Monday, his blue latex-gloved hands clutching the hands of a badly injured Aryann Smith.

    "She was afraid she was going to die. And myself being under there, I'm just praying and hoping for some reason the bus doesn't move," Peck said. "We're right next to the tire underneath the bus, just trying to reassure her and keep her calm."

    Read the full story here.

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  • 13
    Sep
    2011
    11:11am, EDT

    Bus driver's haste derails train, leaves 7 dead, 162 hurt

    By Jonathan Woods, msnbc.com

    At least seven people were killed in Argentina's capital of Buenos Aires on Tuesday, in a rush-hour crash involving two passenger trains and a bus whose driver allegedly drove around barriers in an attempt to beat them across the tracks.

    Rodolfo Pezzoni / AP

    A wounded passenger is removed from a train after it crashed in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Tuesday, Sept. 13.

    Police said 162 people were injured, many seriously, and they were taken to at least seven hospitals around Buenos Aires, some by helicopter. Officials warned the death toll could rise.

    Reuters

    Rescuers work at the site of a train derailment.

    "Doctors have confirmed the deaths of seven people, but there still isn't a definitive toll of the victims," federal police spokesman Fernando Sostre told the AFP news agency.

    Reuters

    Rescuers work at the site of a train derailment after two suburban commuter trains collided with a bus in Buenos Aires on Tuesday, Sept. 13.

    The rush-hour crash involved two passenger trains and a bus whose driver drove around barriers in an attempt to beat them across the tracks, Argentine authorities said. Continue reading...

    The death toll stands at seven but is expected to rise in Buenos Aires where a bus collided with trains after the driver allegedly drove around barriers to beat the trains across the tracks. TODAY.com's Dara Brown reports.

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  • 13
    Aug
    2011
    11:36am, EDT

    Greyhound bus overturns in Pa., injuring 2 dozen

    Dan Marschka / Lancaster Newspapers via AP

    Emergency personnel work the scene where a Greyhound bus bound for St. Louis from New York City flipped on its side on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, briefly trapping a woman and injuring about two dozen people about one mile east of the Lancaster-Lebanon interchange, early Aug. 13, near Manheim, Pa.

     AP reports:

    The westbound bus had stopped in Philadelphia and was headed for a stop in Columbus, Ohio, when it overturned about 6 a.m. Twenty-nine people, including the driver, were aboard, said Greyhound spokesman Maureen Richmond.

    Both westbound lanes of the turnpike were closed until about 10:20, forcing drivers to be rerouted off the interstate. Traffic was backed up for about three miles by the time vehicles were allowed to pass through on the shoulder of the highway around 8:30 a.m., while crews worked to upright the bus, DeFebo said.

    A man working in a farm shop nearby heard the accident on the turnpike, his father told the Lancaster Sunday News.

    "It wasn't a bang, just a slide," said the father, Walter Zeiset.

    Read more here.

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  • 30
    Jul
    2011
    11:28pm, EDT

    Bus plunges off mountain road, kills 10 in Kashmir

    Danish Ismail / Reuters

    A Kashmiri villager searches the wreckage of an overturned bus after an accident in Langanbal village, about 47 miles south of Srinagar July 30. At least 10 people were killed and dozens injured on Saturday when the bus skidded from a road and fell into a stream in Indian Kashmir, according to police and local media.

     Read more here.

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  • 5
    Jul
    2011
    9:32am, EDT

    ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images

    A man crouches near the scene of a traffic accident in Xiantao, Hubei Province of China, July 4. A bus was hit by a truck and caught fire at Xiantao section of Suizhou-Yueyang freeway on Monday morning, killing 23 and injuring 29.

    China bus crash leaves 23 dead, 29 injured

    By Jonathan Woods, msnbc.com

    Seeing a dismantled row of seats from bus, juxtaposed by this man's reaction paints a harrowing scene. Read more on this crash in our story.

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  • 17
    Jan
    2011
    6:07am, EST

    China Daily / Reuters

    A bus is seen after falling into a pit created by an underground explosion in Rui'an, Zhejiang province, Jan. 16.

    Explosion tosses passenger-less bus in China

    By Elena Grothe

    According to EPA: An explosion on a road in east China's Zhejiang Province tossed a bus without passengers four meters into the air, injuring the driver and a 6-year-old boy on the roadside, local firefighters said on Sunday. The cause of the explosion is still under investigation, Xinhua News Agency reported.

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  • 7
    Jan
    2011
    4:05am, EST

    Pro-Telangana protesters demand new state for India

    Stringer/india / Reuters

    Protesters demanding a separate Telangana state carved out of the southern Andhra Pradesh state try to overturn a burnt bus during a demonstration in Hyderabad, Jan. 7. Supporters of Telangana statehood say the interior region has been neglected in favour of Andhra Pradesh's dominant coastal districts. Opponents fear the loss of Hyderabad to the new state will cut off a major revenue stream for Andhra Pradesh, which has invested heavily in a city that is home to companies such as Microsoft, Google and Mahindra Satyam.

    Noah Seelam / AFP - Getty Images

    Indian students shout slogans as they march near Osmania University in Hyderabad, Jan. 7, during a protest demanding the separate state of Telangana in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

    Noah Seelam / AFP - Getty Images

    Indians look at a burning government bus which had been set alight by pro-Telangana students from Osmania University in Hyderabad, Jan. 7, 2011 during a protest.

    Stringer/india / Reuters

    A foreign student of Osmania University walks past a bus set ablaze by pro-Telangana supporters demanding a separate Telangana state carved out of the southern Andhra Pradesh state during a protest in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, Jan. 6.

    By Elena Grothe

    AFP reports: Indian policemen fired tear gas towards advancing students of Osmania University in Hyderabad on Friday during a protest demanding the separate state of Telangana in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) which is spearheading the campaign for a separate state rejected the six main recommendations of the Justice Srikrishna Committee on the statehood issue and asserted that they would not accept anything short of a separate state.

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    DAmn, now I gotta walk to work.

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  • 3
    Jan
    2011
    10:21pm, EST

    Bus fire in Guatemala kills five, injures 16

    Rodrigo Abd / AP

    An investigator inspects a charred city bus where five people died and 16 were injured in Guatemala City, Monday Jan. 3. The cause of the explosion is unknown.

    Rodrigo Abd / AP

    A woman holds her hands to her mouth while looking at firefighters after they had extinguished a fire inside a bus where five people died and 16 where injured, in Guatemala City, Monday Jan. 3. The cause of the explosion is unknown.

    Rodrigo Abd / AP

    Two passengers wounded in a city bus that caught fire wait for medical attention in the emergency room of a public hospital in Guatemala City, Monday Jan. 3. The men are two of 16 people injured when the city bus exploded Monday. The cause of the explosion in which five people died is unknown.

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  • 10
    Dec
    2010
    5:46am, EST

    Beawiharta / Reuters

    A firefighter searches for passengers inside a burned public bus, which caught fire because of an electric fault, in Jakarta, Dec.10, 2010.

    Beawiharta / Reuters

    Firefighters spray water onto a burning public bus in Jakarta, Dec. 10.

    Burned bus: Firefighter searches for passengers after bus caught fire in Jakarta

    By Elena Grothe

    From Reuters: All passengers were rescued and no one was injured, while the bus driver escaped, police officers said on Friday.

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