Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Latest.asp?I1=ID&I2=73852" target="_blank"><b>Latest: CFNews13: Two Buses Collide Near Epcot, 5 Injured</b></a> <p>Central Florida News 13 is reporting two buses have collided near Epcot injuring five passenger.</p>
Originally Posted By MPierce Accidents will happen. I just think Disney's policy of loading their buses like cattle cars is a disaster waiting to happen. Now before anybody saids it's perfectly acceptable, remember we are not talking about the way the rest of the World conducts business. Remember we are talking about Disney. You know the company that trained us from birth to expect the best from them. Besides what Metropolitan area in the U.S.of A., can you go to, and regularly see pregnate women, and children standing on a bus. Maybe it wasn't the cause of injuries in this case, but none the less it is a disaster waiting to happen, and I never miss a chance to rant on this subject.
Originally Posted By disney pete reading the news only one of them was a Disney bus but he must have been doing some speed to not react intime to hitting the charter bus,heres hoping everyone is ok.
Originally Posted By mousermerf They called it a "mears charter" but it was a Disney bus for all intents and purposes - they simply hire those out, but that was the one hat got hit and was stopped for reasons unknown at the moment. The one that hit it shouldn't have, and should have stopped. It's the toll plaza bypass - that's where it happened. The buses going into Epcot on the left go through on the left lane without stopping and divided from the rest of the traffic like a carpool lane and then directed to the bus load/unload area. The "Disney" bus should have seen the "Mears" (aka: what appears to a Hotel Plaza Blvd/DtD bus) stopped and not hit it rather then zoning out and ramming it at full speed on what is essentially a straight and clear line of sight.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 I am not surprised. And I won't be when we have an 'incident' resulting in fatalties. Rest assured, when that happens Disney will blame CMs, weather, other drivers ... basically everyone and everything other than themselves.
Originally Posted By Mr X Geez, did anyone read the original article. It reads like a (bad) high school book report. Is that what passes for journalism in America these days!?
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<Is that what passes for journalism in America these days!?>> Um ... ah ... hate to break it to ya, X ... but journalism in America was taken off life support somewhere around the time the economy melted down. It is dead. Shared content. No copy editors. No fact checking. Picking 'news' up from blogs and the likes of TMZ and 'citizen journalists' ... it's a joke. And it's why so many have gotten away with so much.
Originally Posted By mousermerf So, looking at the latest photos, it happened outside rather then inside the toll area, but like literally only a few hundred yards from where the toll plaza becomes a big Y-shape so the bus should have been slowing down and should have taken less damage - one would think. And aside from that, it's a huge long straight away with 2pm perfect visibility. Even assuming that yes, a bus stopped in the far left lane is abnormal - it's stopped, you're not supposed to just run into a non-moving object. Yes, accidents will happen but this is just ridiculous.
Originally Posted By dshyates Concerning the writing style of news station web sites. The main problem is that the printed articles are lifted straight from on air scripts. I have said for years that the web departments for TV News channels need to hire newspapers writers to do their web articles. Especially since there are some many out of work now with newspapers folding all across the country.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 Geez, did anyone read the original article. It reads like a (bad) high school book report. Is that what passes for journalism in America these days!? ---------------------------- As a journalism major as an undergrad years ago-- sadly the truth is yes. No one can write, no one can spell-- Lord knows no one proofs anything... one of my biggest pet peeves....most papers here now are rags
Originally Posted By hopemax Yesterday, my Dad called to share his amusement of watching the TV broadcast. I can't remember if he said the discussion was between the in studio reporter, and an onsite reporter. Or a reporter and a representative from the sheriff's department or what. But anyway, at one point they said they could not confirm that Epcot was open. It was on private property, so they (not sure who they was) weren't allowed to enter to verify that it was open.
Originally Posted By MinnieSummer This same kind of accident happened at one of the turnpike plaza's where Sunpass drivers can go through without stopping. A woman pulled in then stopped to pay her toll. The truck behind her couldn't stop and crushed, completely, her car. Unfortunately this type of accident happens and while you would think that the driver who was in the rear could have stopped that is usually not the case. BUT, I do agree that the bus situation at WDW is a horrible accident waiting to happen. I always try to wait for a bus so I won't have to stand, however, if I am on the bus and see elderly, pregnant women, or children standing I will give them my seat. It always amazes me how many parents will say no to me and allow their children to stand instead. Just the thought of the driver slamming on his breaks and sending those kids flying makes me sick. And yes, journalism today is not real journalism anymore.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> Only surprise here is that no one was killed. << It's going to happen eventually Leo. Disney's luck will run out some day. >> Rest assured, when that happens Disney will blame CMs, weather, other drivers ... basically everyone and everything other than themselves. << How shocking! Not our Disney. Don't they always put guest, and CM's safety ahead of everything else?
Originally Posted By MPierce >> Is that what passes for journalism in America these days!? << Um ... ah ... hate to break it to ya, X ... but journalism in America was taken off life support somewhere around the time the economy melted down. It is dead. Shared content. No copy editors. No fact checking. Picking 'news' up from blogs and the likes of TMZ and 'citizen journalists' ... it's a joke. And it's why so many have gotten away with so much. << The state of journalisim is alive, and well in America. I'm sitting here in my underwear drinking my midday Manhatan, banging away on my keyboard pointing out, and discussing the problems of the World. What's a little bad grammar, and a few misspelled words amoung friends.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> Concerning the writing style of news station web sites. The main problem is that the printed articles are lifted straight from on air scripts. I have said for years that the web departments for TV News channels need to hire newspapers writers to do their web articles. Especially since there are some many out of work now with newspapers folding all across the country. <, That explains a lot Dave.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> They couldn't walk up to the ticket window and say "are you open?"? << They would have had to call in the "special investigative team" for that.
