A few hundred travellers in ten tour buses spent Sunday afternoon and evening at restaurants and gas stations in the town of Borgarnes waiting for a violent storm which threatened drivers on the Ring Road between Borgarnes and Reykjavík to calm down. A bus carrying 28 French high school students was blown off the road shortly after four in the afternoon.
Dangerously windy area
Windspeeds in Borgarnes and on the Ring Road along Hafnarfjall mountain reached 40 m/s. Localized winds on the Ring Road between Borgarnes and Reykjavík along Hafnarfjall mountain and mt Esja can be especially dangerous to large cars, tour buses, RVs and camper trailers which have been blown off the road on numerous occasions
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The Icelandic National Broadcasting Service RÚV reports that most of the buses which waited out the storm in Borgarnes were carrying local schoolchildren who were returning from participating in a sports even in North Iceland. The first travellers took refuge between two and three. The storm had calmed sufficiently at at ten in the evening to allow the buses to continue to Reykjavík safely.
French high school students in rollover accident
Shortly after four a tour bus carrying 28 French high school students aged 15 and 16 rolled over on Sunday afternoon. Only one passenger suffered minor injuries in the accident. All passengers were wearing seatbelts. The kids were returning from Reykholt and Deildartunguhver geothermal area in Borgarnes when a sudden wind blew the bus on its side.
Only one person suffered minor injuries in the accident. All the kids were wearing seatbelts when the accident took place. The bus driver told RÚV that he did a safety presentation with the kids earlier in the day, instructing them on what to do in the case of a rollover. Everyone must lean away from the windows, toward the middle aisle. The fact that they did this when the bus rolled over is what saved the kids from any serious, he told RÚV
A few hundred travellers in ten tour buses spent Sunday afternoon and evening at restaurants and gas stations in the town of Borgarnes waiting for a violent storm which threatened drivers on the Ring Road between Borgarnes and Reykjavík to calm down. A bus carrying 28 French high school students was blown off the road shortly after four in the afternoon.
Dangerously windy area
Windspeeds in Borgarnes and on the Ring Road along Hafnarfjall mountain reached 40 m/s. Localized winds on the Ring Road between Borgarnes and Reykjavík along Hafnarfjall mountain and mt Esja can be especially dangerous to large cars, tour buses, RVs and camper trailers which have been blown off the road on numerous occasions
Read more: Watch a video of a RV get blown off the road just north of Reykjavík
The Icelandic National Broadcasting Service RÚV reports that most of the buses which waited out the storm in Borgarnes were carrying local schoolchildren who were returning from participating in a sports even in North Iceland. The first travellers took refuge between two and three. The storm had calmed sufficiently at at ten in the evening to allow the buses to continue to Reykjavík safely.
French high school students in rollover accident
Shortly after four a tour bus carrying 28 French high school students aged 15 and 16 rolled over on Sunday afternoon. Only one passenger suffered minor injuries in the accident. All passengers were wearing seatbelts. The kids were returning from Reykholt and Deildartunguhver geothermal area in Borgarnes when a sudden wind blew the bus on its side.
Only one person suffered minor injuries in the accident. All the kids were wearing seatbelts when the accident took place. The bus driver told RÚV that he did a safety presentation with the kids earlier in the day, instructing them on what to do in the case of a rollover. Everyone must lean away from the windows, toward the middle aisle. The fact that they did this when the bus rolled over is what saved the kids from any serious, he told RÚV
