There is no way I would let someone else drive me down one of those roads.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/04/19/44-dead-as-bus-falls-into-gorge-in-northern-india.html


"NEW DELHI –  Forty-four people were killed after a bus swerved off a mountain road and plunged into a deep gorge in northern India's Himachal Pradesh state Wednesday, a senior government official said.

Only two people, including the ticket checker, survived the crash, according to Rohan Chand Thakur, the district magistrate of Shimla district.

Thakur said the bus fell into a 200-meter (657-feet) deep gorge on the Tons river and the cause of the accident wasn't immediately clear."

India, stay the hell out of that place.

I'm surprised it even made the news.  Driving in in India is horrifying.

Damn, right after that bus plunge in the Philippines.

Riding a bus in the third world is like Russian roulette.

Found a few pics, here is one.  Surprised anyone lived.

wow what a way to go......

There should be a new statistic to gauge a country's level of development - bus crash deaths per capita.

It really is.

I had a memorable trip in an ancient French bus watching the assistant roll hashish cigarettes for the driver as we crossed the Atlas Mountains. At night. With snow on the ground.

It's also not encouraging watching them pour water, coca cola or snow onto the steaming brake drums so you can continue the trip

Only 44.....that's amazing. Usually any transport is overloaded with people riding on the roof, etc.

I rode overnight buses through the Western Ghats in Southern India a couple of times...it was terrifying.  Many times you roll up to a scene of another bus that crashed.  You'd just say a "Hail Mary" and thank God that wasn't you and keep going.  Maybe it was a good thing it was dark so you couldn't see how terrifying it really was.  

Scariest was taking an overnight bus north to Goa.  At one point the bus drove onto a tiny ferry boat in the dark of night.  No clue where we were or what was happening, but we were definitely on the water.  I nervously watched the lights on the opposite shoreline draw closer as I figured every second we remained upright and dry got us a bit closer to dry land.  I opened my window just in case this unstable contraption capsized and I needed to unass the bus ASAP and swim.

Does that number also include those who were riding inside the bus?

Only 44 out of 300 passengers isn't too bad.

They all jumped off.

My first thought too.

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What a shitty way to die

What did that bus full of people know about Hillary Clinton?

Wiped out a whole call center!   How will I ever get help with my dryer now?

Holy shit! That had to be a few horrifying final moments.

That being said, I wonder how many people riding on top or with their arms hooked through the windows dangling off the side of the bus have not been counted in the final tally of persons dead...years ago, riding in a small bus up the side of a mountainous road in the back of beyond in Ecuador, I saw some crazy risks taken by the locals, of whom THREE "rode" the outside on the side that left their feet dangling over a vertiginous drop of crazy depths. Half the time, the buses TIRES on that side were easily a 1/4 inch off the "road" on NOTHING. I was only marginally reassured by the fact that the other side had twice as many outside hangers-on, presumably for the counterbalancing effects.



ETA...seems quite a few other folks on here have had the same third-world busride experience I had! (Lol, but not really, since this particular busful of people died. It is not really funny. Sad, but unsurprising, would be more like it. And like another poster said, when you got to your destination after one of those terrifying rides, you were just thankful YOUR bus made it and the fickle fates were distracted by something else at the time. It made me thankful to get back to the US and all the stuff I had previously taken for granted in one piece!)