15 tourists killed in China bus plunge

Take my word (I have lived in China for 17 years), China's tourism insfrastructure is still very backwards. Be really careful when you go there, pick only the top service providers, cheap services can KILL you, literally. Some people will say anything just to make 20 dollars off you!!

1) Eleven students, all of them under eight years of age, were killed along with the driver of their school van on Monday when it collided with a truck in dense fog near here, police said. At least 20 students were injured in the accident on the Saha-Shahbad Road, 25 km from Ambala city. They were rushed to hospitals in Ambala and Chandigarh.

2) Ten people were killed and 24 others injured when an interprovincial passenger bus travelling from Bangkok to Si Sa Ket crashed head on with an 18-wheel truck in Surin’s Sangka district early Wednesday morning, police said.

3) A bus plunged down a ravine in northern Ecuador on Sunday (19 Feb), killing at least 26 people and injuring 29 others, a senior fire service official said.

4)Panaji: The Goa Police has arrested the driver of the school bus that met a fatal accident on Saturday morning (18 Feb)after he lost control of the vehicle, plunging it into the Kalvi river near Aldona village near Panaji. The police confirmed that 7 people were dead, of whom 4 were students. One person is still said to be missing.

Never improves.

I think in SG , wee are not better than them. Look at the Hit & run case, mostly are those better educated SG ! If based on % proportion calculation, we are worst than them . We have people hit a DOG & run also. Scholl children outside the school also get hit & run !!!! These are facts & look at ourself before comments on others !

Accidents do not just happen. They are caused in one way or another. Either its because the drivers are careless, tired and sleepy, in a hurry etc. In one of my holiday trip to Kunming, we had to beg the driver to go slow. The road was really bad and it was raining heavily. We could hardly see whats in front of us but the driver was going at a really fast speed. He kept tellng us "Its OK, this is normal. Thank GOD we were really OK. Its really scary.

worse than Manila Hostage crisis...

irresponsible local employer will still hire this kind of driver, because it is cheap, making money is more important ! this happen not only in transportation sector ...

introducing VICOM to china and maybe can still save some.

Singapore don't have ravine, or else it may happen here.

Nice to see the superior thinking locals are out in force.
Pity you cannot back up your superiority complexes.

In China, human lives mean nothing to the China civilians and even govts. Cos they are Communists wat

What a waste. If he had only read the recruitment page in china to work in singapapore as foreign talent (bus driver), he could have gotten here, earn as much as 120,000 RMB per annum, get to scold passengers to get off the bus, get to greet passengers in chinese as that's the only language he needs to know, get to crash into bus stops and bus bays, get to overshoot the stop line, get to take the wrong route and cause inconvenience to his passengers, get to ...... ahhh...what a waste!

still dare to recruit china drivers for singapore public transport company?

if you had lived in china for 5 years....especially in the northern part...OMG ..they drive cars as though they are still riding on horses...wild horses you cant believe this....this is normal man!

If SBS or SMRT hire China drivers,I will pray each time when I take bus driven by china driver.No matter how much training provided or advices on safety first,their old farking habit die hard.

Even the safest road like in Singapore there are still fatal accidents.Not to mention those in China. If you have been there then you will understand that many "safe driver" will be tested if they drive on the road there, especially roads that have to past by hills, slopes, ravine, cliff etc...Education on 'ROAD SAFTY' is the best to minimised such deadly accident. Think of your love one. Having said that now you decide whether the drivers there are lousy!

Poor tourist and their family members.

At the moment, I am proud to say I'm a Singaporean. But seeing so many disgraceful comments made in every yahoo article, I hope I can still say this in the future.

Can all parents do a background check on the school bus drivers before paying for their services?Your kids life might be in danger! It won't hurt to check!

And you have to think that more and more of our bus drivers are coming from this place.