From: Hachiroku ハチロク on
They kept saying "the driver of the pickup truck..." on the news.

That's not a pickup truck, that's a 'tractor'. Why do they keep saying
'pickup truck'?


Oh.....

http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2010/08/06/alg_resize_bus-crash.jpg
From: FatterDumber& Happier Moe on
Hachiroku ハチロク wrote:
> They kept saying "the driver of the pickup truck..." on the news.
>
> That's not a pickup truck, that's a 'tractor'. Why do they keep saying
> 'pickup truck'?
>
>
> Oh.....
>
> http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2010/08/06/alg_resize_bus-crash.jpg

Look again, it's between the semi and the bus.
From: C. E. White on

"FatterDumber& Happier Moe" <"WheresMyCheck"@UncleSamLoves.Mee> wrote in
message news:4c5bcbc8$0$11816$bbae4d71(a)news.suddenlink.net...
> Hachiroku ???? wrote:
>> They kept saying "the driver of the pickup truck..." on the news.
>>
>> That's not a pickup truck, that's a 'tractor'. Why do they keep saying
>> 'pickup truck'?
>>
>>
>> Oh.....
>>
>> http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2010/08/06/alg_resize_bus-crash.jpg
>
> Look again, it's between the semi and the bus.

OMG - is that a Nissan Frontier in there?????????????????

Ed


From: Hachiroku ハチロク on
On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 07:19:57 -0400, C. E. White wrote:

>
> "FatterDumber& Happier Moe" <"WheresMyCheck"@UncleSamLoves.Mee> wrote in
> message news:4c5bcbc8$0$11816$bbae4d71(a)news.suddenlink.net...
>> Hachiroku ???? wrote:
>>> They kept saying "the driver of the pickup truck..." on the news.
>>>
>>> That's not a pickup truck, that's a 'tractor'. Why do they keep saying
>>> 'pickup truck'?
>>>
>>>
>>> Oh.....
>>>
>>> http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2010/08/06/alg_resize_bus-crash.jpg
>>
>> Look again, it's between the semi and the bus.
>
> OMG - is that a Nissan Frontier in there?????????????????
>
> Ed

You can tell? I sure the hell couldn't. I wouldn't have even known it was
a truck if they didn't say so...



From: Ray O on

"Hachiroku ????" <Trueno(a)e86.GTS> wrote in message
news:uxZ6o.108$yr6.87(a)newsfe05.iad...
> On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 07:19:57 -0400, C. E. White wrote:
>
>>
>> "FatterDumber& Happier Moe" <"WheresMyCheck"@UncleSamLoves.Mee> wrote in
>> message news:4c5bcbc8$0$11816$bbae4d71(a)news.suddenlink.net...
>>> Hachiroku ???? wrote:
>>>> They kept saying "the driver of the pickup truck..." on the news.
>>>>
>>>> That's not a pickup truck, that's a 'tractor'. Why do they keep saying
>>>> 'pickup truck'?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Oh.....
>>>>
>>>> http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2010/08/06/alg_resize_bus-crash.jpg
>>>
>>> Look again, it's between the semi and the bus.
>>
>> OMG - is that a Nissan Frontier in there?????????????????
>>
>> Ed
>
> You can tell? I sure the hell couldn't. I wouldn't have even known it was
> a truck if they didn't say so...
>

I read somewhere that it was a GMC full size pickup. It sounds like the
student who was killed while riding in the back of the first bus sustained
her injuries when the second bus hit the first one.

I'm no accident reconstruction expert, but I suspect that the pickup driver
and student survived the first 2 impacts - pickup hits semi tractor and bus
hits pickup, and then the impact from the second bus crushed the pickup and
fatally injured the student at the back of the first bus.
--

Ray O
(correct punctuation to reply)