Oops!!

Updated June 2, 2009

Shit happens!
Unibuss #658 after a tunell incident in May 2009. The bus was squeezed between the left tunell wall and a large rescue vehicle that it tried to pass in a sharp curve in the tunell up to Dronning Mauds gate. Fortunately, the bus was empty.
Not exactly a bus, but I was there 10 minutes after it happened and took the picture downtown Moss August 4 2007. Of course, no handbrake applied!
From Bergensavisen (BA), May 2 2005: Incredible story: According to the driver this articulated bus suddenly skidded and he fell out of the driver's seat and the bus ended in the ditch.
April 2005, a brand new Mercedes-Benz Citaro from Sporveisbussene has just hit a traffic light. According to the newspaper Aftenposten, the driver forgot his handbrake!
Tenk trikk - kjør buss (Think tram - drive bus), a slogan for frequent bus tranport - but in this case maybe too literate. This bus certainly is astray, "derailing" way off where it should be in Gothenburg, Sweden.
One of Sporveisbussene's MAN NL262 experienced this accident during the Easter holidays April 2004. Picture from the daily newspaper Aftenposten. The bus was empty and it hit no one as it rolled with disengaged handbrake and the driver out of the bus. One way to prevent such accidents is to implement automatic door brakes also for the front door of the bus.
"ikke i trafikk" = "not in operation" - you bet!
One morning at a bus depot in Moss: Nobody was in the bus, and the bus had not been in operation for days and hence was without brake pressure - so theoretically all wheels should have been locked. A mystery? Possble solution: The handbreak lever had been disengaged before air pressure was at normal level and the bus left with its engine running. When air pressure reached a certain level, the brakes were disengaged since the handbrake lever was in off position.
Quite a shocking experience for the guests in this cafe in Skien, Norway when this 1987 Volvo B9M tried to get in for a cup of coffee in the morning one day in May 2001. After this, the occupancy rate of the cafe dropped by 40% - since many guests were expecting another bus to show up. One year later the cafe went broke. Contribution from Martin Holm
Not really an OOPS since this happened at a winter driving course at a closed circuit. Please refer to my Winter driving-page.
Oslo metro hitting the end stop during ranging back in 1974. This picture is from the website of Helgedagsbetjeningens Forening, Oslo Sporveier.
24.11.04: Picture from Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet. Also Sweden has been haunted by snow chaos several times in November. This articulated bus tried to turn around at its final destination, but due to glossy ice - and the low adhesion weight of an articulated bus - the ditch became the final destination.
This VW bus obviously did not fully succeed in passing under the wing. Don't know where and when!
A contribution from Sweden: Jeppe Sørensson took this picture Augsut 19, 2003. A Volvo B10M has just backed into - or is just backing into - a Scania Lehto 402 and crashed its front window.
This happened when this bus yielded a little bit too much for another vehicle on this not-so-very-narrow road. Contribution from Marc Weimann, Stockholm
This bus simply missed a shortcut road by 5 meters because the road was so poorly cleared for snow that it was hard to find. Contribution from Marc Weimann, Stockholm
Thsi can be the result when the turbo breaks down and the turbine blades shatter and cut pipes that in turn start leaking diesel fuel over the hot engine. Contribution from Marc Weimann, Stockholm
Passengers leaving "the sinking ship", or rather the sliding bus. Marc Weimann was the driver when the hill became to steep on the slippery road and the bus started to slide backwards. Contribution from Marc Weimann, Stockholm
This bus in Docksta, Sweden, had tried to descend a steep hill, met an area of glossy ice that made breaking as well as turning impossible, so it just skidded off the road. Luckily nobody was harmed. Contribution from Andreas Wigren, Sweden

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