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March 21st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The bus that caught fire on the Hume Highway on Tuesday. Photo: Tara Ashworth
A SCHOOL bus that burst into flames on the Hume Highway on Tuesday is the 12th bus in the past two years to have been destroyed by fire on Victorian and New South Wales country roads, prompting calls for an overhaul of coach safety standards.
But transport safety investigators say they can identify no pattern behind the spate of school bus fires.
”There is no pattern that we can identify, but the fact that they’re happening is a cause for real safety concern,” said Paul O’Sullivan, the chief investigator at the NSW Office of Transport Safety, which is investigating Tuesday’s fire.
”Nothing suggests to me that there is a systemic deficiency with any particular make or model. The causation varies and we just have to keep trying to pin it down.”
Thirty-seven Xavier High School (Albury) students, four teachers and the bus driver safely evacuated their school bus when a fire broke out at the rear as it approached Albury at the end of a trip to Ocean Grove.
The incident followed a tourist bus fire in Kallista in the Dandenong Ranges in January, in which 42 Asian tourists survived a fire that started in the vehicle’s rear.
In November, another school bus carrying about 40 students went up in flames after its engine caught fire in Olinda, also in the Dandenongs. In July, a busload of 40 primary school children escaped a blaze that destroyed their bus as they drove through Fernwood en route to the ski fields.
Leading bus safety campaigner Leon Hain, a member of the Victorian committee of the Australasian College of Road Safety, said although no pattern had been identified, the rapidity with which the buses had burnt out indicated fire safety standards were inadequate.
”It’s just a matter of time until a bus catches fire in a remote area and there will be no hope of rescue,” Mr Hain said.
”The bus contents, the fixtures, seats and footings, are flammable. They are mostly synthetic nowadays, so once a fire starts it spreads fast and before the fire reaches you the fumes are likely to kill you anyway, because they are toxic.”
The Albury bus had burnt to a shell within 20 minutes.
Mr Hain said bus flammability standards had not been updated in more than 20 years.
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