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01-04-2018, 06:54 PM
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Re: At Least 51 Killed After After Bus Plunged Off 'Devil's Curve'
Wow, at least 2 survivors moving around, how is that even possible?!? Wonder if either of them lived?
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01-04-2018, 08:22 PM
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Re: At Least 51 Killed After After Bus Plunged Off 'Devil's Curve'
Damn that John Denver....
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01-04-2018, 08:36 PM
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Re: At Least 51 Killed After After Bus Plunged Off 'Devil's Curve'
Hopefully many of them were crashed out (sleeping), no pun intended, before the realized what happened.. Very tragic indeed  |
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01-05-2018, 02:28 AM
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Re: At Least 51 Killed After After Bus Plunged Off 'Devil's Curve'
Yes it nothing short of a miracle to survive this kind of crash. The one under the bus most likely died but the one sitting up hopefully made it.
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01-05-2018, 03:18 AM
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Re: At Least 51 Killed After After Bus Plunged Off 'Devil's Curve'
President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski announced Wednesday that he was ordering the nation's Ministry of Transportation to begin working on plans to expand a nearby road farther from the cliff, and according to the "Peruano" newspaper and other Latin American media, he banned all buses from traversing the Pasamayo stretch of highway, which has earned the name "Devil's Curve." The road near the Pacific contains 52 curves in a stretch of just 14 miles bordered by a wall just 20 inches high. It is frequently covered in mist and has been the site of numerous accidents. The crash's death toll is equal to that of a 2013 accident that is the deadliest in recent Peruvian history. In that crash, 51 Quechua Indians were killed when the makeshift bus they were traveling in fell off a cliff and into a river. Deadly wrecks with large numbers of victims occur with relative frequency along Peru's roadways, with more than 2,600 people killed in 2016. The crashes often involve buses carrying mostly poor Peruvians traveling outside major cities. Transportation experts blame a combination of bad road conditions and little enforcement of traffic safety regulations  · |
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01-05-2018, 06:20 AM
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Re: At Least 51 Killed After After Bus Plunged Off 'Devil's Curve'
That is even worse than the bus crash up here in Northern California vs a FedEx Truck. Good find!  |
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01-07-2018, 05:49 PM
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Re: At Least 51 Killed After After Bus Plunged Off 'Devil's Curve'
To heck with that guy who said "hey listen you should just leave 'em alone." I would have appreciated a backpack pillow as opposed to one made of rocks if I was trapped under a bus. Kudos to the guy who helped her!
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