After the traffic accident in which the driver of Cutcsa on Pocitos beach, the transportation company He explained and showed the various brake options that the cars have.
In a video broadcast in the first instance by Telemundo (Channel 12) a driver is seen inside one of the company’s buses (same model as the one used by the driver who had an accident), showing the different brake options that the unit has.
Hours before, and in an interview with the La Pecera program on Azul FM, the president of Cutcsa, Juan Salgado, said that it did not exist “the possibility” that the unit has been left “without brakes”.
“In automatic buses, the gearbox comes with a mechanism called retarderthat when one does not want to use the brake and does not have to brake suddenly, it is enough to lift the foot off the accelerator so that the car gradually begins to brake. That retarder button is not on the driver’s right, is on the left“, revealed.
“The instinct of a professional driver when the brake does not respond, Before it was to reduce changes to stop it. In this case, first It is impossible for a car like that to run out of brakes. Because if you run out of air because you ran out of tank, there is the air brake. Then the car crashes, because it doesn’t work, through the air“he added.
“But let’s assume that the bus did not run out of brakes, but rather continued accelerating.” because he made a mistake by putting his foot in the wrong place“, held.
“The third brake, the hand brake, is neither pneumatic nor like the retarder, from the box. It’s mechanical. In the left hand, against the driver’s window, there is a small stick, which if manipulated simply lowers. There the handbrake is activated“Salgado revealed.
“When you press the handbrake you are pressing a brake that has nothing to do with the others. It is impossible for them all to break together. A four-year-old bus, with the best maintenance records,” he stated.
