What happened in the tragic school bus fire in Bangkok?

@Garrett **********

wow!

@Hendrik ***********

Where were the saftyhammers for breaking the glass, are teachers educated to handle emergecucases like this? My wife is a teacher and she said that she did not know what to do if that happen, i ordered a safetyhammer right away to take with her when she go travel with school.

@Jan ***************

yeah pretty sure buses in the UK all have those little hammers next to the back window

@Hendrik ***********

these buses run on gas bottles, once they explode i don't think you could drive beside the bus??

@Sylvia *******

if so..the bus would have been exploded ..but it burnt down ....

I read a lot of words for excuses....

@Hendrik ***********

easy to say

@Sel ****

why ..easy to do ...

@Steven *******

I suggest to ride a bus once. Your comment is completely unappropriated. The buses are as safe as in Germany. No damn difference. Perhaps even more safe, but in Thailand you have a Gazzillion of busses running and in Germany only a few. The bus here is a Mercedes. And some poster above thinks "authorities have to be informed" if a bus is switched from Diesel/Gazoline to Nat Gas. The damn bus comes with nat gas out of the factory. Why being or pretending to be in Thailand, if you hate the country so much?

Except for ultra old buses, like the "red ones" in Bangkok, all transport runs on Nat Gas, every damn Taxi is a Nat Gas/electric hybrid.

From the pictures of the bus, you can see, it was in perfect condition.

Those buses simply do not have enough exists. Kind of awkward to know a bus holds about 50 people, and half of them died in something that likely was avoidable. But when panic sets in, such situations simply are awkward.

@Neil *******

the bus blew a tyre. That would make skid marks. It's happened to me years ago with a blow tyre. This was also reported on news

@Neil *******

100m skid marks? That would resolve into something like 400km/h speed. We have of course German busses (flex) that easy can do 400km/h. Well ... considering that the bus in question was a German bus ...

And how can a harsh break, no matter how long the marks, can cause a fire?

@Angelo **********

as reported on the news.

@Neil *******

The news did not report what caused the fire.

@Garrett **********

So think the driver set the bus on fire deliberately ? That would be extremely unlikely .Somehow a fuel line broke then sparks from the impact set the fire off .In truth i do not know ,,,,,and i am just speculating .I have seen in the past lots of crashes resulting in fires ...There is also the possibility that the driver fell asleep at the wheel .

@Euan *******

A burst tire ,would make the bus do that .

@Garrett **********

Sorry but I have to massively disagree with you. You obviously don't have any kids so you wouldn't understand. But to see images of a burning bus knowing that there are children burning alive inside is distressing to some. Especially to me, as I have a daughter in the third grade. Show some consideration. At least remove the photo of the burning bus!

@Garrett **********

Don't try and turn it. I never said it's offensive, don't make me out to be some sort of snowflake. I said it's distressing, which has a completely different meaning. If you had kids the same age who had died, you'd understand - how would you feel if it a kid you knew well or was close to on that bus and these images kept on getting reposted? Would you want images of that bus burning being shown all over the internet? I am sure I am not the only one with this opinion. I'm going to hide this post now and not comment any further and try and get the images of the burning bus off the "recent media" section out of respect for the dead. I hope in the future you show a little more consideration before posting such images.

@Garrett **********

I think what he's trying to say is pretty much the whole of Thailand has heard this story by now and out of respect for the families such images should not be constantly reposted just for a bit of click fame. Even on this forum. Some of us have young kids in Thailand ourselves.