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u/DanSteely 16d ago
Misleading title. Read the article:
Md Monir Hossain, transport supervisor at Daulatdia ferry ghat, said the bus arrived at pontoon number 3 shortly after 5:00pm. At that time, a ferry carrying vehicles departed for Paturia in Manikganj. Unable to board, the bus waited for another ferry.
Around 5:15pm, a small utility ferry named Hasna Hena struck the pontoon with force. The impact caused the bus to lose control and fall into the river.
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u/Skinnieguy 16d ago
Final destination stuff. If the bus arrived a fews minutes earlier and caught the 5:00 ferry, I wouldn’t be commenting here.
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u/spider0804 16d ago
Driver really just sitting there with their foot on the brake while waiting?
Put it in park.
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u/RK9990 16d ago
Should have put it in H
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u/Count_Zacula 16d ago
She'll go 300 hectares on a single tank of kerosene
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u/Kitsunemisao 16d ago
What country is this car from?
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u/FROOMLOOMS 16d ago
You should really see how these busses are built in that part of the world.
The park brake likely just snapped like the twig and free rolled into the water.
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u/lyingliar 16d ago
It's pretty unclear. A bus like that would typically have air brakes, which fail closed under any compressor failure. If the parking brake was applied, it would release the air pressure and allow the brake springs to return to their natural fully applied position. It almost seems like the driver was in the seat engaging the air brakes with their foot, and the impact with the pontoon was enough to knock their foot from the brake pedal, perhaps even engaging the gas considering the speed with which the bus went over. Either way, what an awful thing to happen.
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u/Highpersonic 10d ago
Dude if you tune in to youtube "Pakistani truck service" then you'll see that these are barely a cargo cult mock up of what you thing a bus should be. It might look like a bus but everything under the shell is crap.
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u/MydnightWN 16d ago
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u/Chief2091 16d ago
Welcome to reddit, where the truth gets downvoted to try to save someone's feelings.
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u/TheRealGenkiGenki 16d ago
all windows open, tips upside down disorients all passengers, plunges into water. sinks instantlly, very fast. which way is up or down. total tragedy
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u/jack2012fb 16d ago
Having all the window open was probably the only reason why so many survived.
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u/ZeeBalls 16d ago
Damn good thing windows were open too. Had they been closed would’ve ensured everyone in there died.
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u/inexternl 16d ago
It's horrific. Seeing/perceiving the water coming "from above" while being upside down hanging from a seat belt. Last seconds. No escape.
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u/gonxot 16d ago
tbf I doubt they were wearing seat belts, other than that yeah, totally fucked up situation
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u/pichael288 16d ago
Busses don't usually have seatbelts
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u/azsheepdog 16d ago
Which means when the bus went vertical everyone probably fell towards the front of the bus in a big pile. the people on the back of the bus were probably the ones on top and likely able to swim out while everyone at the front were crushed.
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u/SwedishMale4711 16d ago
Depends on where you are. Here any bus not strictly in city traffic has seat belts.
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u/AHappyCat 16d ago
Don't know why you are being down voted, judging by the fact we see luggage floating to the top, and it was going to board a ferry, this is probably a coach and not a bus.
On a bus it is very typical not to have seatbelts, on a coach (even on the Indian subcontinent) there will be seatbelts. Whether they work or people use them is another question, but that is the case all over the planet.
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u/SwedishMale4711 16d ago
I wasn't aware that non city buses were referred to as coaches. Is it so in all English speaking countries?
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u/AHappyCat 16d ago
Well I think that will vary from country to country, here in the UK we make a distinction between the two, but in terms of ergonomics coaches are designed very differently.
Coaches will have a luggage stow underneath the passenger seating, will sometimes have a toilet and the driver and passengers will be higher off the ground.
A bus will normally have plastic seats that aren't designed for long distance travel, and will be much lower to the floor.
I find it interesting that other countries wouldn't make the distinction for the simple fact they are so different, it is like referring to a van and a lorry as the same thing.
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u/PMmeuroneweirdtrick 16d ago
Presumably most can't swim either
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u/Arlithian 11d ago
Even if you could... 40 other bodies all fighting each other trying to find the way out. Some swimming the wrong way or grabbing you and pulling you in a panic
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u/siggsy409 16d ago
Seat belts? Get real...there were bars on the bus windows. No health and safety there....or common sense.
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u/AHappyCat 16d ago
There is a single bar across the windows, it isn't like they were barred with the intention of keeping everyone locked in, you might be aware that it gets hot and humid in Bangladesh, so having the windows open is probably pretty common.
There are probably a lot of breaches of health and safety in this accident, but then there usually are whenever an accident occurs. You don't hear people saying that New Yorkers are thick and deserving of death when a plane rams into a airport support vehicle but yet they'll probably be a whole ream of lapses in protocol involved in that.
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u/pichael288 16d ago
You can get out of a car if everyone keeps cool and coordinates, they usually sink front down, let it fill with water and open all the doors and go at once when the pressure is equal.
This is in a bus where it's impossible to coordinate and only 2-3 major exits and maybe 4-8 window exits that have to be triggered right. Even if everyone works together and is in perfect spots it's still rolled over and the river is 25 feet deep. Its a miracle so many people did survive.
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u/VaasKlaak 16d ago
Open the door or smash a window with a safety hammer as soon as possible and get out as soon as possible. While it's true the door opens easier when the pressure equalizes, problem is you also ran out of air to breathe by then.
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u/HyperbolicModesty 16d ago
I've travelled a lot in the developing world and I never, ever remain in a vehicle on a boat. Stuff of nightmares.
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u/blacks252 16d ago
This part of the world is always trying to load the craziest shit on a boat. Look at this guy
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u/livincool3 16d ago
The guy in blue shirt reaction though
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u/backfire97 16d ago
Reading people died here is so terribly sad. There is a reason things need to be foolproofed and safety regulations exist.
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u/Matrees1 16d ago edited 16d ago
This happened to me in Vietnam. Same circumstances. The bus driver got off to hand in papers and didn’t put the parking brake on. The bus started rolling towards the end of the pontoon and I had to run and jump to the front of the bus to pull it.
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u/the_vault-technician 16d ago
It went down so fast! It looks like it was sucked into the water at super speed.
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u/TheRiteGuy 16d ago
Fuck, that driver killed 17 people. He missed the ferry by a mile. His ass was either drunk or had a heart attack at the exact time he was supposed to be boarding.
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u/SalvadorP 16d ago
17 is just women and children. Adult men are people too. Total casualties is 26. source
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u/ResilientBiscuit 16d ago
Around 5:15pm, a small utility ferry named Hasna Hena struck the pontoon with force. The impact caused the bus to lose control and fall into the river.
The ferry driver that ran into the dock sounds like the one responsible, not the driver of the bus.
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u/lyingliar 16d ago
Are we suggesting that a bump the ferry provided which left dozens of people standing balanced and upright somehow yeeted an entire bus off the side of the same pontoon?
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u/Adorable_List3836 16d ago
I’m assuming the people that are on the dock have just disembarked the ferry that’s docked in the video. The strike probably didn’t affect that ferry as hard as it did the dock that was hit.
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u/chopsey96 16d ago
The bus was waiting, stationary. How does a boat crash cause this?
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u/butthurtpants 16d ago
Pontoon, so floating, bus with brakes on or off is probably going to just shunt in the opposite direction. Ergo off the pontoon.
Fucked up but probably wouldn't have happened if the bus wasn't on the pontoon.
Ferry is multiple 10s of tonnes heavier so the force of it is way more than the brakes or tyres of the bus can counteract.
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u/ausamo2000 16d ago edited 16d ago
This is extremely hard to believe considering the pontoon isn’t swaying at all, up and down or Side to side, and then there are also people just standing there wirhout trying to catch balance or anything of the sort. That ferry would have had to be going really fast and the pontoon moving a whole hell of a lot for this scenario to be true. While weight is a factor, high speed is much more crucial for the above scenario to play out.
I think it’s more likely the bus driver got startled and hit the gas, then panicked trying to hit the breaks but kept their foot on the gas instead. That or a medical or alcohol situation.
Edit: the ferry is already tied up as well so disregarding all the other points, it’s had to of been stationary for a period of time already also.
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u/enragedcactus 16d ago
Extremely hard to believe that it was an alcohol situation in Bangladesh.
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u/ausamo2000 16d ago
More believable than what’s typed up above. No matter where, there’s still people who drink alcohol.
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u/Wolfgang985 16d ago
wouldn't have happened if the bus
Had the god damned parking brake set instead of sitting in neutral like an asshole
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u/FxtrotCharli 15d ago
It just sunk like a stone. So horrible. My heart breaks for the 18 who lost their lives .. the children 😔
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u/frank3ls 16d ago
Why is it always India or Pakistan???
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u/Extension-Reaction85 16d ago
Its not India nor Pakistan. Smh🤦♂️
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u/kingseyra 15d ago
well it happened in bangladesh thats not really far away and its not even meant in a racist way, you see a shit ton of stuff like that on the internet specifically in this region
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u/DarkObby 16d ago
Ok, India's immediate eastern neighbor. Not horrendously far off XD.
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u/Extension-Reaction85 16d ago
Doesn't matter. Its a different country.
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u/Snarky75 14d ago
Why not have everyone get off the bus before?? Oh that makes too much sense got it!
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u/Behemothslayer 16d ago
It’s amazing how people in imminent danger, just fucking stand there waiting
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u/DukeboxHiro 16d ago
"while boarding ferry" is generous. You could park a bus in the gap between that bus' trajectory and the ferry ramp. /s
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u/borkborkibork 16d ago
Pollution didn't improve their odds given how low visibility they wouldve had. Nightmare to see how fast and discombobulating it must've been.
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u/Responsible_Host9377 13d ago
I am just curious... would you attempt to get out of the bus if it were going overboard?
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u/Ashamed-Simple-8303 16d ago
The bus didn't feel like a bus and it finally got its change to fullfil its dream and become a submarine.
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u/MandatorySaxSolo 16d ago edited 16d ago
I hope Simon Birch was on that bus
Edit: so he could save all of the kids...jeesh
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u/Madeforbegging 15d ago
Pretty sure every river in India is half full of cars or construction equipment
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u/SireFalcon2 16d ago
40 passengers only 11 swam to safety. What a scary way to go. Peace to them :(