Originally posted by Pete D:
If the car had not been there, I also think less people would have died. The frame of a medium duty truck (school bus) is going to take a blow from a tractor trailer a lot better than a car...
The school bus' survivability is close to irrelevant. Even the secondary impact send the bus spinning 200ft down the road, tossing 3 occupants in the process, so regardless of how well the bus structure may hold up in the collision (i.e. not absorbing much impact energy), it doesn't matter if it's pirouetting down the road, scattering its contents about. There is no 'ideal' circumstance, except for there to have been no truck at all.
B. Riley
Melbourne, FL
'01 Camry LE V6/5-spd
Was: '00 Black/Tan SVT Contour #560 - Sold 3/26/03
Before that: '95 Champ/Blue Contour GL V6 ATX
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