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Hwange Colliery Bus in collides with truck - WhatsApp update
14 May 2014 at 12:56hrs | Views
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5:25pm, 14 May - +263 77 ▩▩▩ ▩▩▩▩: Hwange Colliery Bus Accident .....a Colliery bus just an accident as it was on its road test from the company garage. Artisans are told to make a plan when servicing machines, cars and buses as there are no spares for servicing, this is the second accident from last month dumper that burried a worker on dumpsite. Many factors contribute to these accidents as workers have gone for 11 months with no salary, just mealie meal and packet of beans. Some children could not even go back to school because of lack of money. Hence monetary stress might be the cause of these accidents
5:43pm, 14 May - Bulawayo24 News: Hi there!
Were there any injuries here?
5:45pm, 14 May - +263 77 ▩▩▩ ▩▩▩▩: Just the mechanic who was driving who is at hospital now
5:47pm, 14 May - Bulawayo24 News: So what caused the accident ?
5:53pm, 14 May - +263 77 ▩▩▩ ▩▩▩▩: There is a dust road that was cleared that is used by Makomo trucks that deliver coal to ZPC ..and its so bushy on the crossroads that drivers hardly see each other and there are no proper road signs on that particular cross
5:55pm, 14 May - +263 77 ▩▩▩ ▩▩▩▩: They were both speeding and hence and couldnt get enough braking distance when they saw each other
5:56pm, 14 May - Bulawayo24 News: So here the bus heat a truck (THE WHITE ONE)?
5:57pm, 14 May - +263 77 ▩▩▩ ▩▩▩▩: They collided
5:57pm, 14 May - +263 77 ▩▩▩ ▩▩▩▩: Yes
5:57pm, 14 May - Bulawayo24 News: Is that the only photo u have?
5:59pm, 14 May - +263 77 ▩▩▩ ▩▩▩▩:
6:01pm, 14 May - Bulawayo24 News: Thanks !
6:02pm, 14 May - Bulawayo24 News: Were thereany passengers on both vehicles but drivers?
6:04pm, 14 May - +263 77 ▩▩▩ ▩▩▩▩: In the bus there were school kids ...but they were not injured
6:53pm, 14 May - +263 77 ▩▩▩ ▩▩▩▩:
6:53pm, 14 May - +263 77 ▩▩▩ ▩▩▩▩:
6:54pm, 14 May - +263 77 ▩▩▩ ▩▩▩▩:
6:54pm, 14 May - +263 77 ▩▩▩ ▩▩▩▩:
7:31pm, 14 May - +263 77 ▩▩▩ ▩▩▩▩: just for the world to know, the operations at the company are now raising eyebrows, ~a bus got involved in a collision. On Sunday an earth dozzer caught fire at the mine, some few weeks ago an excavator was buried at the mine pits.
7:33pm, 14 May - +263 77 ▩▩▩ ▩▩▩▩: Lives are 'just' about to be lost.
5:25pm, 14 May - +263 77 ▩▩▩ ▩▩▩▩: Hwange Colliery Bus Accident .....a Colliery bus just an accident as it was on its road test from the company garage. Artisans are told to make a plan when servicing machines, cars and buses as there are no spares for servicing, this is the second accident from last month dumper that burried a worker on dumpsite. Many factors contribute to these accidents as workers have gone for 11 months with no salary, just mealie meal and packet of beans. Some children could not even go back to school because of lack of money. Hence monetary stress might be the cause of these accidents
5:43pm, 14 May - Bulawayo24 News: Hi there!
Were there any injuries here?
5:45pm, 14 May - +263 77 ▩▩▩ ▩▩▩▩: Just the mechanic who was driving who is at hospital now
5:47pm, 14 May - Bulawayo24 News: So what caused the accident ?
5:53pm, 14 May - +263 77 ▩▩▩ ▩▩▩▩: There is a dust road that was cleared that is used by Makomo trucks that deliver coal to ZPC ..and its so bushy on the crossroads that drivers hardly see each other and there are no proper road signs on that particular cross
5:55pm, 14 May - +263 77 ▩▩▩ ▩▩▩▩: They were both speeding and hence and couldnt get enough braking distance when they saw each other
5:56pm, 14 May - Bulawayo24 News: So here the bus heat a truck (THE WHITE ONE)?
5:57pm, 14 May - +263 77 ▩▩▩ ▩▩▩▩: They collided
5:57pm, 14 May - +263 77 ▩▩▩ ▩▩▩▩: Yes
5:57pm, 14 May - Bulawayo24 News: Is that the only photo u have?
5:59pm, 14 May - +263 77 ▩▩▩ ▩▩▩▩:
6:01pm, 14 May - Bulawayo24 News: Thanks !
6:02pm, 14 May - Bulawayo24 News: Were thereany passengers on both vehicles but drivers?
6:04pm, 14 May - +263 77 ▩▩▩ ▩▩▩▩: In the bus there were school kids ...but they were not injured
6:53pm, 14 May - +263 77 ▩▩▩ ▩▩▩▩:
6:53pm, 14 May - +263 77 ▩▩▩ ▩▩▩▩:
6:54pm, 14 May - +263 77 ▩▩▩ ▩▩▩▩:
6:54pm, 14 May - +263 77 ▩▩▩ ▩▩▩▩:
7:31pm, 14 May - +263 77 ▩▩▩ ▩▩▩▩: just for the world to know, the operations at the company are now raising eyebrows, ~a bus got involved in a collision. On Sunday an earth dozzer caught fire at the mine, some few weeks ago an excavator was buried at the mine pits.
7:33pm, 14 May - +263 77 ▩▩▩ ▩▩▩▩: Lives are 'just' about to be lost.
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