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Fortunately nobody on the bus was injured. Even luckier that no crew were standing on the platform. This kind of damage quite often rendered the vehicle scrap with the upper deck floor displaced.
I find these sports utility vehicles a menace, so often driven by someone who cannot keep to their own side of the white line. I expect that this will be reduced to due care and attention since it wasn’t a nasty lorry driver at fault.
My Grandad hit a Routemaster up the arse in a Foden 8 wheeler on the Marylebone Rd, it completely caved in the staircase and the Fire Brigade had to come along to get everyone who had been sat up top down using a ladder. Nobody was hurt thankfully.
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newmercman:
My Grandad hit a Routemaster up the arse in a Foden 8 wheeler on the Marylebone Rd, it completely caved in the staircase and the Fire Brigade had to come along to get everyone who had been sat up top down using a ladder. Nobody was hurt thankfully.Sent from my SM-G950W using Tapatalk
I didn’t think these thing happened before the Internet and smart phones.
I used to drive a Routemaster or Bristol lowdecker to/from shows and events when working for Stagecoach and I was always papping it on faster roads 
for this reason.
mrginge:
newmercman:
My Grandad hit a Routemaster up the arse in a Foden 8 wheeler on the Marylebone Rd, it completely caved in the staircase and the Fire Brigade had to come along to get everyone who had been sat up top down using a ladder. Nobody was hurt thankfully.Sent from my SM-G950W using Tapatalk
I didn’t think these thing happened before the Internet and smart phones.
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Only just down the road from my house. Eyesight must be completely shot not to see a big red bus in front of him/her…
easy to fix though…new back end…its not a write off…seeing as someone else is paying. 
Wouldn’t have been a good day on said bus had the soddin pimped up Clio got wedged up the bus’s arse and caught fire 
cav551:
I expect that this will be reduced to due care and attention since it wasn’t a nasty lorry driver at fault.
There is precedent of drivers having rightly been apportioned some blame for knowingly unnecessarily driving vehicles which can’t make expected progress for the road conditions.Foreseeably resulting in this type of needless aggro. 
As Juddian has pointed out this could have possibly resulted in numerous fatalities.Equally possibly all because it was too much for someone to think that we’re going to use it for out of town work which it was never designed for so we’re going to need Green Line type 690 engine and high ratio diff spec in it. 
Carryfast:
cav551:
I expect that this will be reduced to due care and attention since it wasn’t a nasty lorry driver at fault.There is precedent of drivers having rightly been apportioned some blame for knowingly unnecessarily driving vehicles which can’t make expected progress for the road conditions.Foreseeably resulting in this type of needless aggro.
As Juddian has pointed out this could have possibly resulted in numerous fatalities.Equally possibly all because it was too much for someone to think that we’re going to use it for out of town work which it was never designed for so we’re going to need Green Line type 690 engine and high ratio diff spec in it.
What about those drivers who creep about on single carriageway roads 10 mph under the limit, in cars well capable of reaching and exceeding it?
More of a nuisance than vehicles with mechanical limitations, because there seem to be lots of them.
AndrewG:
Only just down the road from my house. Eyesight must be completely shot not to see a big red bus in front of him/her…
Went the other way about 10 minutes after it happened, road completely shut for 3 hours.
I know the bus driver and someone posted on his facebook “How do you not see a big red bus!” The reply “Texting is the rumour.”
If that is the case, no sympathy to the car driver. He/she should also have to pay for the repairs out of their own pocket as well as be locked up for a few months.
The irony of the ‘Welcome Aboard’ blind!
Buckstones:
What about those drivers who creep about on single carriageway roads 10 mph under the limit, in cars well capable of reaching and exceeding it?
More of a nuisance than vehicles with mechanical limitations, because there seem to be lots of them.
35 mph on that piece of road is a bit more than just 10 mph under the limit even for trucks let alone cars ?.It ‘should’ be seen as a case of driving without consideration for other road users whether it’s muppet car drivers or trying to save a few bob in driving a tractor along there which could have been carried on a truck.Or needlessly driving a bus that’s designed for mainly 30 mph town environments and which,as I’ve said,was actually modified to deal with that known issue in the day.But no it’s so much better to go out causing more needless aggro on the roads when they already filled with enough muppets as it is.
AndrewG:
Only just down the road from my house. Eyesight must be completely shot not to see a big red bus in front of him/her…
Are you back with Jack Richards ? 
I sort of agree with you Carryfast, it is very selfish to hinder the progress of other road users because you fancy driving around in an old car, bus or lorry. Cyclists, joggers and horse riders are even worse as they never ever belonged in roads at all.
But in the case of old vehicles, I appreciate the work and money that has gone into them and I think it’s fantastic that they’re still in working condition, it’s a PITA to get stuck behind one, but it’s not an everyday occurrence.
If you crash into the back of one, you’re an idiot, no two ways about that and if it’s a red double decker bus, then you’re a special kind of stupid.
However, people crash into other people every day, human error is a factor every single time and it doesn’t make the news, so as sad as this is, it’s just another day on the roads.
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Did AndrewG just post using the wrong user name or am I missing something?
AndrewG:
Only just down the road from my house. Eyesight must be completely shot not to see a big red bus in front of him/her…
In Spain?
Beau Nydel:
Did AndrewG just post using the wrong user name or am I missing something?
Didn’t he say that he still has a house in the UK that he rents out, or is my memory playing tricks?
I thought same as you Albion.
newmercman:
I sort of agree with you Carryfast, it is very selfish to hinder the progress of other road users because you fancy driving around in an old car, bus or lorry. Cyclists, joggers and horse riders are even worse as they never ever belonged in roads at all.
To be fair it’s not so much a case of ‘hindering progress’ as taking something out on the wrong type of road that isn’t designed for making a ‘safe progress’ for the road conditions.Which is why although I like historic vehicles as much as anyone else they don’t use the M23 or the A23 for the London to Brighton veteran car run for example.Nor have I ever seen any of the buses from the Brooklands bus museum being driven on the A3 or the M25 etc although as I’ve said I’d have no problem with driving a Green Line spec RM bus anywhere on roads even up to the Dual carriageway/Motorway NSL.
But I would refuse to drive an RM that couldn’t maintain much more than 35 mph without blowing up on such roads because the resulting speed differential will foreseeably eventually result in something like this or much worse.Or the thing will blow up trying to maintain a reasonable speed for the road conditions creating yet more needless aggro.While one of my regular jobs as a council driver was transporting tractors around the County so that they weren’t needlessly driven on trunk roads like the A24 and A25,let alone the A3 etc,in that regard.
IE in this case if I was the driver my answer would be put a 690 and a high diff in it,just as they did in the day for out of town work,or I ain’t driving it and that’s how the law ‘should’ also see it. 