Team coach on fire?

"Suffered complications" makes it sound like it caught fire whilst having its appendix out or summat

 

Glad everyone is OK and that's the main thing but that is nightmare for the coach company. Good luck at getting a replacement at this time on a Saturday evening.

 

Fly them home and claim it on insurance

 

Kinell wow

 

I'm just glad everyone's ok

 

Goal drought by his high standards.

 

I don't think planes can land on the M5

 

Not at the minute they can’t, there’s a bus on fire in the middle of it.

 

Hopefully some fans see it and offer some lifts. Some after the game will have stayed behind for some tea somewhere and to watch the Rugby or the PL tea time game.

Imagine coming home from the game and seeing lots of people at the side of the road I'm flames and as you get closer realising it's our team. You'd have to stop.

 

Merchants bus company from Gloucester has sent a bus to get them.

 

Bloody hell!

https://x.com/shortingjames/status/1710754615707189365?s=46&t=2cb7Y5QEQxx4EVYoL7-wmg

Edit: not sure why it won’t embed properly?

 

M5 is now closed

 

Is it an electric bus.. son in law is a truck/bus recovery driver, he says they're alway setting on fire. Never gets reported much tho funny enough..

 

Hopefully the fire brigade had the foresight to douse it in Coca Cola...

 

I never realised that Barry Cotter was that tall

 

In the knowledge that all on board are OK, I feel less guilty that the lyrics currently bouncing around in my subconscious are "team bus on fire, our defence was nearly fried."

Usually I don't have a clue why a random song is going round my head, so can at least pinpoint this one to something.

 

The propensity for Lithium Ion batteries to burst into flames is well known. This is the main reason that insurance for Electric Vehicles is so high. I read a report about Electric Bikes in New York where people had set up unofficial charging facilities in their sheds or outhouses and many of them went up in flames. This is also why airlines would prefer you to completely power off your phone/tablet/laptop....

 

Err excuse me I got there first

 

Many fears have accompanied the rise in popularity of the electric vehicle (EV) amongst car buyers. Initially, it was range anxiety – that dread of being stranded in the middle of nowhere with a flat battery and nowhere to plug it in. Better and larger batteries have mainly consigned range anxiety to history, only to be replaced by charge anxiety – will the plug-in point you need be working when you get to it?

The one EV fear that refuses to go away, however, is the claim that they’re much more likely to catch fire than are traditional combustion-engined vehicles. Pictures of electric car fires pop up regularly on social media, usually showing a flaming or burnt-out Tesla somewhere in America, with the caption “Look how dangerous electric vehicles are!”

In fact, it’s an urban myth – research into actual cases has shown that EVs are much less likely to combust than their petrol or diesel equivalents. That’s not to say that all those pictures on social media never happened; you just don’t see an equivalent number of photos of petrol cars burning to the ground…

However it’s not all good news. When an EV does go up in flames, it presents a far trickier proposition for the emergency services trying to extinguish the blaze.

Most of the noise surrounding electric car fires comes from people who are very vocal about their absolute opposition to EVs and the phasing out of petrol and diesel cars. At best, their concerns stem from a lack of understanding of electrically-powered equipment as a whole.

We’ve all had electrical appliances we’ve had to chuck away after the batteries – likely left in far too long – corroded all over their contacts. And a fair few of us have likely experienced an overloaded plug overheating and melting.

With electric cars boasting huge high-voltage battery packs, it’s perhaps no surprise that such fears transfer to them and are ramped up to life-threatening level. But evidence of the risk of electric car fires suggests the exact opposite.

 

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