Reminiscent of the similar disaster in Chicago, when a petrol tanker and a PCC collided.  Unfortunately the PCC had inward opening doors, so with the press of people they could not be opened and a lot of people died.  I understand that Chicago took the hint and changed all the doors to outward opening.

Regards

Dudley Horscroft

On 26/07/2021 6:15 pm, TP wrote:
> The police prefer the BMW for two basic reasons: superior driving dynamics that enable safe manoeuvrability at high speed and extreme dynamic situations and range. The Tesla may be great in a straight line but it won't have the driving dynamics of the BMW. The police have both a need to be in command when managing a situation and an OH&S issue. And naturally they don't want to run short of juice just when they most need it.

>

> And back to trams, the cruelest incident associated with gasoline was when a petrol tanker collided with a brand new R1 class tram in Petersham in the 1950s and burnt it out. No doubt DGT management was cheering and was able to apply the same method to the whole fleet a few years later.

>

> Tony P

>

> On Monday, 26 July 2021 at 17:31:10 UTC+10 trams4me wrote:

>

> On Mon, 26 Jul 2021 16:21:18 +1000, Tony Galloway wrote:

>

> >Advertising like that always reminds me of this

>

> My son has just bought a Tesla 3 - now that's a pocket rocket.

> There's not much on the road that could beat it in a drag off the

> lights <g!>. Would be a better Highway Patrol pursuit car than the

> BMW 320d

> OT: P-platers can't drive V8s or turbocharged engined cars in

> Victoria, but the little 3 would blow anything less than a Porsche

> 911 into the weeds and doesn't have a driver restriction. OTOH

> I'll wait for the Y - the Tesla models are very S.3.X.Y.

>

> Yuri.

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