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Speeding with VING!

During the night on Autobahn traveling from Sweden through Germany there were uncontrolled accelerations and braking the whole time. One so forcefull that I hit my head in the seat in front of me.

After a while I understood that it was a nightly race between 2 other busses - one of them was a VING-bus which was going to Livigno. The buses were really speeding. How fast? Well, if we ask VING they answer...

[driver] denies that there was any kind of speeding or racing or that the speed-limit was exceeded. This is also not possible since the bus is "locked" at 100 km/hour.

Aha, The bus is "locked" at 100 km/hour! The journey-writer on board the bus speaks another language. The blue line indicates 100 km/h. Just before the crash the driver has been alternating between still-standing and 80 km/hour due to the irregular traffic in the morning rush-hour.

Then he accelerates from 80 km/h to 105 km/h straight into still-standing traffic. A couple of minutes before that, at the red circle, the bus was driving at 110 km/hour. Locked?

Who drives like this? The driver, who's name I have removed from this document, since he is sentenced for "Serious recklessness in Traffic" in Germany, but not in Sweden, tells...

[driver] had own company in Germany, though not as bus driver. From December 1995 [driver] resumed his job as bus-driver mainly for [local bus-route operator] [driver] had not driven the bus involved in the accident before but says he is used to this model since he was assigned a similar buss during his employment at [regional bus-route operator where employed 3 years earlier]

Yes, it was actually the first time he drove the bus on Autobahn. He had no experience with the bus, and had only worked as temp-driver earlier. What was he paid for this four days of work? Well, read his story...