If you were wondering, a Miata does fit under a school bus

"E90M3" (e90m3) 09/25/2019 at 11:52 • Filed to: None

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This happened this morning in the city I live in . It looks like only the driver of the Miata was injured in the accident.

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Nibby > E90M3 09/25/2019 at 11:59

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BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo > E90M3 09/25/2019 at 12:00

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“What kind of car hit the bus?”

“Miata is always the answer. ”

BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo > Nibby 09/25/2019 at 12:01

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I see you’ve arrived with cutting edge technology.

facw > E90M3 09/25/2019 at 12:02

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It does feel like school buses could use M ansfield bars. Apparently they don’t want them because they would make the departure angle significantly worse, and because in a crash, you might end up with more energy transferred to the bus.

Future next gen S2000 owner > E90M3 09/25/2019 at 12:02

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Lower the Miata, raise the bus!

Milky > E90M3 09/25/2019 at 12:04

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Well thats frightening.  

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > E90M3 09/25/2019 at 12:04

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Good lord it’s a miracle the driver is still alive.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > E90M3 09/25/2019 at 12:10

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BEHEADING!!!

BeaterGT > E90M3 09/25/2019 at 12:11

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Luckily the driver lived in this case. Lost a fellow student in high school this way.

dogisbadob > E90M3 09/25/2019 at 12:14

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Now people are going to throw the Miata under the bus

Ash78, voting early and often > E90M3 09/25/2019 at 12:16

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Number of injuries: NA

benn454 > facw 09/25/2019 at 12:16

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 Buses have the structural integrity of a beer can.

benn454 > Ash78, voting early and often 09/25/2019 at 12:18

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 NB is superior anyway. 

Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever > E90M3 09/25/2019 at 12:21

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Glad the driver made it.  A few inches to the right and the outcome would have been very different.

facw > benn454 09/25/2019 at 12:23

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School buses are extremely strong. They are designed around the idea that nothing should compromise the passenger space, and they are pretty good at that.

Ash78, voting early and often > benn454 09/25/2019 at 12:23

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This NA is definitely inferior to even a school bus.

OPPOsaurus WRX > E90M3 09/25/2019 at 12:26

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i’d be impressed if they reclined the seat and that is how they avoided dy ing

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > E90M3 09/25/2019 at 12:28

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Shown:

How a Dodge Challenger is born.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > E90M3 09/25/2019 at 12:31

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taken to hospital?

guess he ducked

Urambo Tauro > E90M3 09/25/2019 at 12:49

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Somebody desperately needs to go back to (driving) school.

Hamtractor > facw 09/25/2019 at 13:04

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True. When I was a fireman, I attended an extrication class in San Diego. They had three busses. One was used as a teaching/practice prop to destroy using hydraulic shears, spreaders (J aws of Life) and various saws, etc. Surprisingly, it took an entire morning for fifteen students and three instructors to tear it up. The other two busses were used in a scenario, two identical scenarios split the class into two crews of seven or eight guys. They used a front-end loader to put the bus on it’s side, then used it to push an Izuzu Fuso into the roof and into the passenger compartment. We had to cut our way in through the rear of the bus,remove several patients, and then cut our way through the Fuso to access the patients remaining at the front of the bus. Operating at real-life speed and tempo, as in an actual inci dent, it took us over an hour to remove all the patients. The frame of a school bus, including the “cage” that surrounds the passenger compartment, was brutal. we used a lot of circular saws with metal cutting blades and hydraulic shears to do most of the demo work.

M.T. Blake > E90M3 09/25/2019 at 13:55

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...but the drivers head doesn’t!!!

wkiernan > E90M3 09/25/2019 at 14:48

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Argh, that picture! Terrifying. I have a red Miata.

A few years ago I was behind a school bus and I noticed, hey, no Mansfield bar! Since then whenever I get behind one I’ll either change lanes or stay way back.

wkiernan > OPPOsaurus WRX 09/25/2019 at 14:50

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You can’t recline the seat. The gas tank is behind the seat, there’s no space. It’s the one feature of Olde English Sports Cars that I miss: on a long trip you can’t lean the seat back and take a snooze in a rest stop.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > facw 09/25/2019 at 15:07

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And Miatas could use drivers who actually look at the road in front of them.

I drove a school bus and it’s amazing how something 40 feet long and ten feet tall and 8 feet wide and painted bright yellow can be completely invisible.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Hamtractor 09/25/2019 at 15:13

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Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > E90M3 09/25/2019 at 16:00

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When I was looking for a first car, I found a 2001 Trans Am with a manual in the set budget. My Dad test drove it, and found nothing wrong with it. His answer was a hard no, because “You’ll kill yourself in it.”

Within a month, a former student decided to pass a car in the fog and rain at 120 in his Trans Am . He smacked a bus. At that moment I realized my father was probably right.