Enough of an unusual spectacle to attract a crowd of bystanders – but was it? In those not-so-far-off days of crash gear boxes and cable brakes it only took a missed gear-change to set you off in a rearwards direction! On todays crowded roads it would have ended up with a multiple vehicle collision. Craig Colledge updated our knowledge with: “I think that you will find that this was my grandad’s bus, George Colledge. I have various photographs at different angles of the accident blown up in frames on the wall. As I remember being told as a youngster it was at the bottom of Brotton. Grandad always said he has never seen so much raw eggs, live chickens and other animals thrown a cross the inside of a bus. (In them days you would take anything on board to market). The reason for the accident was that the steering failed. Or that is what he told me.”
Image courtesy of Howard Wilson, thanks to Craig Colledge for the update.
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