Nine hurt as roof ripped from bus
 

A double-decker bus hits a bridge in Birmingham

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This type of incident can not be considered an accident.
It can only be defined as an act of negligence - maybe criminal negligence (more serious than carelessness as he driver is a trained professional). The driver should be held responsible for the injuries - just as if (s)he had personally assaulted the passengers.

In the few months this forum has been up and running this is the 3rd incident of this type.

http://www.truckandbusforum.com/showthread.php?t=315
http://www.truckandbusforum.com/showthread.php?t=304

They must be day dreaming, i drove a high car transporter for years it just becomes second nature

I reiterate what I have said in the past, regardless of driver error or culpability, There should be 'bridge to vehicle' warning and immobiliser devices, particularly with passenger vehicles.
And so it goes on.

If the bus hit the bridge head on, why is front screen intact? I have see a number of vehicles that have hit low bridges (buses & HGV's) and all have had their fronts destroyed.

I suppose it depends 'how low' and 'how high'. Looks like it was just too low . . .
. . . or too high . . .

It might be interesting to see the actual figures (and whether the route was 'approved' - or, conversely, 'prohibited'.

No low bridge, it was a tree this time.

A bus driver was taken to hospital yesterday after her double decker bus hit a tree and its roof was torn off.


http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standa...bus/article.do

Another roof off - this time in Scotland

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/sc...6908-21226026/

He was taking a shortcut, must have forgotten he was driving a decker.

That's one thing that London Transport drivers never could claim.

I once discussed the 'safety' of the Routemaster braking system with Colin Curtis then Chief Engineer. I questioned what prevented drivers from continuing with inadequate system pressure. He responded that 'driving with the flag down' was a sackable offence. "No driver can claim they didn't notice the flag." He then took me to a Routemaster cab and showed me 'the flag' - a metal arm about a foot long that dropped-down from the cab header rail into the driver's field of view and perforated with the word STOP whenever the hydraulic pressure fell below the residual performance level. Indeed it would be almost impossible to see the road ahead whilst the 'flag' (which had to be reset by a mechanic in the workshops) was 'down'.
I had to concede that he had designed an unmissable warning device . . .

Likewise the height of the vehicle was written in large letters on the header rail of the (single width) cab where no driver could claim they couldn't see it. I admit that the first time I drove a Routemaster under a bridge I checked and double checked the figure against the sign on the bridge (and that was around the Chiswick Test Centre driver's test route).