CARIIS
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Wait - maybe I'm confused. He wasn't drug tested after this accident this week? That linked article was about an earlier fender bender.
I was confused about this too. They said they got a warrant for a blood draw to test?? The way it here is you basically have no choose or your license is taken.
Basically what we have learned from aviation is focusing on the where and how the seats are attached (related to G- Forces) are more important than seat belts.
Up to a threshold, seatbelts but help , but once G-forces exceed certain levels, in more intense accident sequences, objects (the seats themselves) become dangerous.
IMO in this accident sequence seatbelts would have not altered outcome, if sides of the bus were built to higher tolerances maybe the occupiable space would have been larger.
In any wreck "occupiable space" is the end all. In aviation they increased the g loads aviation seats must meet and we have seen huge differences. The Asiana crash in San Fran -- a lot of people got out of that one cause the higher G-loading seat attachments.
Earlier someone asked about the crash sequence. I saw an animation a few days ago and tried to find for you guys. It helped me immensely in understanding what occurred.
So here goes!
We are the driver in his seat facing forward. The bus apparently went off the road a little to the right. He attempted to correct, overcorrected to the left, and the bus fell over onto its right, (perpendicular to the highway) side and continued sliding down the road on its side , sideways.
The right side of the bus ; was the side scraping down the road, before the actual impact sequence began. It kinda seemed to me (doubt stuff had been timed yet) but the slide on its side down the highway might have been kinda longer than imagined..
It careened that way for a bit, went up a slightly inclined driveway which altered its trajectory, and the actual impact sequence started. ( My sense is that the flipping twice is not correct) - from the pics and the animation, it seems as if the vehicle remained on its right side , from the initial loss of control, through the entire slide, until final impact sequence started with the mailbox , pole, and with the tree which ended the impact sequence.
Don't know if that helps!!