Service 855 tragedy

• PT21

  22 Oct 03, 21:23

  
  
  Hi all.
  
  As you all know what happen on service 855 last Sat morning.
  The bus spur out hot steam and boiling water and injured 3 passengers.
  
  Anyone know what model is the bus and the rego .
  
  Thanks.
• Superbus

  23 Oct 03, 08:52

  Originally posted by PT21:

  
  
  Hi all.
  
  As you all know what happen on service 855 last Sat morning.
  The bus spur out hot steam and boiling water and injured 3 passengers.
  
  Anyone know what model is the bus and the rego .
  
  Thanks.

  Berita Harian reported that TIBS immediately inspected 50 units of the same model. Still, I've no idea what model it was. A CAC O405 maybe?
  
  Cheers and warm regards
• FireIce

  23 Oct 03, 10:23

  read it in the papers....
  
  the last few rows affected rite?
• AntiDennisLance

  23 Oct 03, 13:02

  Originally posted by PT21:

  
  
  Hi all.
  
  As you all know what happen on service 855 last Sat morning.
  The bus spur out hot steam and boiling water and injured 3 passengers.
  
  Anyone know what model is the bus and the rego .
  
  Thanks.

  The pictures on the straits times/zaobao were very clear - from the pics you can see the rego which is TIB506R which is an O405 OAC.
• off_service

  23 Oct 03, 14:03

  Originally posted by AntiDennisLance:

  The pictures on the straits times/zaobao were very clear - from the pics you can see the rego which is TIB506R which is an O405 OAC.

  Reporters can make mistakes, especially if the bus company did not reveal the bus model.
  
  50 of such models could not be Mercedes CAC, as that is definitely more than 50. It is left with Scania L113s or Lance 245s. Service 855 doesn't use Scanias so it is left with Lance 245s.
• off_service

  23 Oct 03, 14:04

  Originally posted by FireIce:

  read it in the papers....
  
  the last few rows affected rite?

  Yup
• SBS9818A

  23 Oct 03, 15:39

  Originally posted by off_service:

  Reporters can make mistakes, especially if the bus company did not reveal the bus model.
  
  50 of such models could not be Mercedes CAC, as that is definitely more than 50. It is left with Scania L113s or Lance 245s. Service 855 doesn't use Scanias so it is left with Lance 245s.

  It is already confirmed to be a Lance 245.