1999 MCI D-Series Bus 35 Mph Frontal Crash Test 

As a bus driver, i can tell you the way you stay safe in a crash like this is you don't crash the bus.

I think that was one of the most violent impacts I’ve ever seen. Yet, that was just 35 mph…

I really feel so sorry for Emergency personnel who have to retrieve the injured and deceased from this type of accident . Can you imagine the driver and first 4 rows of occupants .

I have been at the scene of an accident where a double deck bus hit a bridge at around 100 km/h. It wasn't full frontal, but impact was enough to cause absolute chaos. As i was passing by driving my own bus, i happened to be the first at the scene and i immediately started calling emergency services and tried to remember my first aid lessons the best i could. I was so focused i never even heard all the equipment arriving at the scene and after three hours , in which my bus was used to shelter the passengers from the crashed bus, i continued for the rest of the 450km i still had to drive that day. I saw stuff that still haunts me. Wear those seatbelts people. Please.

These BeamNG videos are getting really good.

Seemingly out of nowhere, a sales rep walks up. “As you can clearly see, the luggage bays still open smoothly.”

I just love how everyone clapped at the end

I drive older MCI's. Until now, I have just hopped in and gotten them where they need to go, and am generally happy with MCI's. However, I am fkng speachless right now.

Bus driver tried his best to stay awake, but eventually he just hit a wall.

Driver in buses is the crumple zone….. ouch.

Hard to believe this is a 35 mph accident. Nothing but deaths and injuries out of this.

Wow! I would of never expected to see such a catastrophic impact from an impact at 35 mph, I mean damage forsure but if this were full of actual people and it ran into like a highway overpass wall at just 40-45 mph easily could of killed 6-8 people possibly more and dozens of serious injuries. I don’t think anyone whether belted or seated in the back would have been able to escape being injured in some way

Was wondering why they didn't put a dummy in the drivers seat, then realized it would probably be obliterated

The storm of glass shards is very scary. Most of looks like the coach didn’t have toughened glass windows.

I want to see that again with a 2022 coach bus. That doesn't look good for 1999.

Unless you run into a bridge support or some other solid structure, this type of damage is unlikely, usually the bus is the more solid that whatever it runs into.

No more driver if in doubt

I didn't expect it to survive with this rather good shape, with all the seats staying in place. Impressive.

Wow, talk about extreme incentive for the driver NOT TO CRASH the bus!!!

and that's why you SHOULD ALWAYS wear safety belt when you are rolling into a seat that it has mounted on something on wheels. remember: safety first! always !

2 thoughts: Wow, this is cool! And i never knew the dummies had underwear on. Not sure how i feel about the logistical side of that.

The NOLA Mother's Day crash in 1999 killed 23 when the bus went off the road and hit an embankment. An MCI rep said this was worst frontal impact they had ever seen and bus was probably going close to 70 mph at impact.

I'd say if there were an incident like that the bus driver will look like a puddle of tomato soup in the cabin😢

Avilenino24 is missing something really important here. 1) the D model is based on structure designs dating back to the 60's. It was outdated when the C (its near predecessor) arrived in the late 80's. 2) This test is also on a 20 or more year old bus with a lot of fatigue and corrosion. Steel in the front spare tire and suspension area as well as the sash pillars is a real problem on these old girls. You can hide it with paint but not when you do this. When they were new they stood up pretty well as I had one come in from a light head on with a car to be checked and repaired (light meaning each going 30 or so mph ) (the door and other parts of the car were in the baggage bin - it didn't fare well) but we measured it out and it had sprung back, checked welds etc. even the energy absorbing bumper was Okay - the only damage was a cracked windshield from the flex and we readjusted the latch for the front bumper (the bumper folds down to access the spare tire). It wouldn't do that 20 years later. Age and structural maintenance is a huge issue and one that makes crashes way worse than they could have been, but it it overlooked and very expensive when it is done. The other thing to note is the C's, D's and DL's etc. have been pretty much superseded. The E, F, G and J models that are of entirely new design (1998 I think) and construction of these is completely of stainless steel. They don't degrade over time, they also show almost zero fatigue even when 15 years old. A quantum leap over the C's and "Ds. From my experience of crash resistance the E-J's are the best busses built today and they stand up the same if they are one or 20 years old. You mention Prevost and Setra and these busses are not great either, you never want to roll a Prevost H model - terrible. These manufacturers still use a lot of steel (cost cutting) which In my opinion is not a good choice for a vehicle on the road for 20 or 25 years and so many miles. I guess what I need to say is when you get on a 10 or the 20 plus year old bus in the test it doesn't matter what safety standard it passed back years ago. it's what is under your seat now that is more important. Me - I spent 12 years running a body shop specializing in highway coaches and over 20 in that profession.

In July of 2010 a Greyhound bus collided with an overturned SUV in Fresno, California, that killed 6 people, including the 3 in the SUV. It was caused by the driver of the SUV. an intoxicated minor, striking the center divider and rolling her vehicle. Two minutes later the MCI bus struck the SUV, careened off the side of an exit ramp and flipped in its side, killing 3 occupants of the bus, including the driver. Seeing pictures of the bus from the news reports it had similar damage to this one, maybe a little less impact but the collision was at highway speed and not against an immovable object.

Definitely want to be a crash tester when I grow up

"how was work honey" "It was ok, we only smashed a bus today :/"

They could make a telescopic frontal crash-zone. On board on a ferry, or driving very low-speed in narrow city streets, it could be withdrawn, saving space. Higher speed driving on country roads, it could be extended fully, giving a calculated controlled deceleration in case of an accident.

I hit a telephone pole at 35-40 mph, small overlapp pretty much right on the passenger headlight. Broke the telephone pole but I only had minor bruises from the seat belt. Its astonishing the level of destruction in this accident from a similar speed

O ônibus do crashtest tem quase 25 anos, fico curioso para saber a evolução estrutural dos ônibus atuais em situação semelhante. Imagino que as barras metálicas que caíram sobre a cabeça dos passageiros não deve colapsar hoje em dia. Da mesma forma, a chuva de partículas do teto deve ser bem menor, espero.

Отличный обзор краш- теста автобуса!

Imagine if it was a bowling team and each had a bowling ball in the storage above their head. There will be many birds flying in the bus after the crash.

Now I know what a compact bus looks like.

And just like that, in an instant the driver and the first 4 rows of passengers are an IHOP bacon egg and cheese special. As a bus driver I always stay way far behind whatever is in front of me but I am terrified of the day that another motorist collides with my front wheel in a way that knocks my steering out and I careen out of control into the side of a building or bridge pillar. Dog nose trucks are sooo much less sketchy when I think about the worst case scenario.

Are there any head on crash tests of a full size coach bus vs for example a mid size car?

I use to drive the counter flow in the Battery and Lincoln Tunnels for NYCTA for years, glad no head- on's in the tunnels.

Insane for just 35mph. Now imagine a crash when the driver falls asleep and drives off the highway at 70mph

I liked the test crash bus with car in testing around 60s because that camera put inside in the bus slow motion

It's actually the equivalent of a 70 mph hit. The wall us exerting the exact same force.

Have to think tho this is a crash into a solid unmovable object, which don’t get me wrong could happen but it’s very unlikely. a normal crash for a bus would be between it and another vehicle most likely a small car, so in that case these buses are a lot safer than you think.

Самый главный элемент безопасности автобуса это адекватный водитель. Его голова должна быть "впереди" автобуса, его же не зря за руль посадили с удостоверением D. Довольный работой и зарплатой.

How many bus drivers had died in the past and present years because of the front end of this buses. Rather it's MCI or New flyer or Prevost. The front end should be better designed with reinforced like the flat face school buses.

Only Keano Reeves could save the bus!

As a bus owner and a driver I know that there is no way to survive that

Precisely why I hated driving motorcoaches. Went back to freight. I got six feet of axle, engine, and transmission to take the blow, not just my coffee cup, Garmin satnav, and six inches of fibreglass.

My god only 35ph.

Driver: "so, where is the crumple zone?" Manufacturer: " *youre sitting on it* "

There's no way the driver and first or second row of people would live through this.

5:03 The Crash Dummies over reacted a little bit, its just a fender bender.

Put your seatbelt on ! Slim survivability for the passengers that are slung down the passage way in the middle... Another reason for this is if a buss flipps over in accident, then pepople in the upp part fall down on the lower side , Possible hitting the "lower row" passenger in the process. the seat belt may also save you from exiting the buss thru the lower windows and then get flattened between the side of the buss and the ground .

Moral of story: sit in the middle area of the bus.

Never thought to think of the frame bending up and sending people flying.

A sitbelt is important!

Well, I can take being a bus driver off my list of possible occupations.

I’m just wondering why the little child is all by themselves in row 12

Great job interior camera operator.

Buses have never been more than tube frames and sheet metal. Spam in a can basically.

Crazy how your choice of seat could be the difference between life and death

Passengers in rows 1 to 8 were wearing seatbelts and despite that were either killed or severely injured with shrapnel and glass

They don’t even bother putting a dummie in the driver’s seat because obviously he’s a goner.

funny how the wheel smashes into the driver just to make sure he's dead

Wonder what twice the speed would look like.

Its like the scene from killer bean but instead of the shelf getting wrecked its the vehicle

Would be nice to have a link to the actual test report, that would make these really good

Yes, it is a problem when running into a wall . Do they have other videos that show other crashes ? I would like to see other models from all manufacturers not just one company !

This happend in real life with a belgian bus who came from Sierre driving to Belgium with a bus full of students….

All the mass (engine, transmission, axles) pushing from the rear...

I feel like they should've had a dummy driver like in a regular car crash test. Would've loved to see how that thing ended up

That's it, from now on I'm only driving in concrete blocks! 🧱

Reminder to set towards the middle of a bus.

Crazy how much glass was flying around in there.

The next time i get on a bus, if the seat belt is there, I'll use it.

Buses don't have very long crumple zones because they have the engine in the back. They should make the fronts of buses far bigger to preven susch an outcome.

This is only around 60 km/h. Most of buses max speed on highway is 100 km/h. I can't imagine the consequences in case of crash without breaking.

Imagine this but in a 1970's third world bus with a barely maintained body crashing at a lower speed, the result would probably be the same.

Well you can definitely say goodbye to the bus driver…

betting this passed to !!! Gonna watch motor homes next !! That should be fun !!

Whats lessons the Bus Manufactures learning with this crash test? Any updated in engineering? I would watch a crash test with Setra and Marcopolo buses

The extreme wreckage for such a relatively low speed (56 kph) is because all the energy is dissipated by the bus. Full on crash with a car? The car will take the most of the damage. With another bus? Both will share the damage roughly equally.

Thats a pretty cool video

The fact that airbags and seatbelts arent mandated on buses, school or public, is scary af

Did the dummies got snapped?

"cars are meant to crumple to save the driver from super high g-forces!" meanwhile buses: i would rather have brain damage than death. a 1mph crash in this bus is like someone hitting the front with a metal bat REALLY hard

I wish them a great holiday.

First - don't get into an accident. Second - if you are going to get into one, hope you are wearing a seatbelt.

This happened in Australia in 1989. 2 coaches headon. I think about 35 dead. Have to look it up. Terrible

Well, that’s not what I expected.

Amazing carnage in passenger section from detaching interior components and storm of broken glsss. Everyone catch the infant in child seat at 13.58 probably killed by a panel striking its head

I should crash test my bus, I made a RTS Coach a while ago on the Roblox.

So the safest place to seat is somewhere in the middle, cause if the bus gets rear ended by 18 wheeler at the same speed, that might be the last ride for u as well.

MCI test bus. Interesting before mass production

This means that everyone one meter behind the front axle has a poor chance of survival, basically none.

I'd ask what about 60mph or 100kph, but it would be a disaster.

They didnt bother adding a driver dummy since they would have been flattened instantly 😅

The bus driver is history,😆

Anyone know why they didn’t put a dummy in the driver’s seat ? Or it was just obvious it would be completely destroyed ?

All crash test dummies survived, Some had dummy charging injuries but they survived i have you know.

Yup I'm definitely always wearing that belt 😅

Sooooo what's the biggest penalty for screwing up in your job?

What date was this tested on?