A bus where a bus shouldn’t be! In the wood at the bottom of Mill Bank. Terry Clarke commented: “Ha ha ha, sorry you should not laugh but that was the day when the brakes failed on the bus, I could be wrong but the driver that day was a local lad from Loftus. The bus ended behind Spedding’s; a few feet from the beck.” Dave commented: “That was Paul Hart who was the driver; who is my uncle.” We understand the unfortunate driver was called Paul (Sprag) Hart from Loftus; the brakes failed on the bus and so failed to negotiate the hair-pin bend on Carlin How bank. The bus ended up down the bank side. Two hours later Paul was back in the driving seat after crawling back up the bank, his only injury were cuts to the inside of his mouth sustained from the broken glass. Today the crash barrier would prevent such an incident occurring. Emma Wright added: “Remember it as my dad was a bus driver at the time and we went down to see it!”
Image courtesy of Eric Johnson; thanks to Terry Clark, Dave, Mr Bint and Emma Wright for the updates.
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