How the hell did this bus driver think his Double Decker bus was going to go under this bridge ?
And the local councillor is calling for the Council, Highways & Network Rail to come up with a solution? There’s signs advising the height and a level crossing going up & over alongside it - how much more can they do? Surely the bloody driver has a smidgen of responsibility for this? 
There’s an identical setup in Ely - does that suffer the same problems does anybody know?
Incidentally, if you havea look at the bridge in Google Earth, there is a Specsavers ad right in front of the bridge!
Gary
Should have dropped the suspension a bit first…
■■■■ me, that’s not just taken the roof off, it’s just about turned it into a single decker!
Poor trident!
The driver needs sacking instantly, banning and made to retake his driving test.
How can anyone make an excuse for this.
dew:
[zb] me, that’s not just taken the roof off, it’s just about turned it into a single decker!Poor trident!
Poor trident?
The ones I drove at Stagecoach were ■■■, retarder didnt kick in until 50mph, glad I had a Volvo Olympian when a tractor pulled out in front of me on theA339 a few years back!!!
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I know this bridge well as its only 10 miles from me, been under it loads in my car. Just to the left there’s a bit to go over the top if your a HGV. It really is a obvious low bridge it is well marked and it’s obvious to me even in a 11ft 2 High rigid that I wouldn’t even get under that even if the height wasn’t marked as its really that low
Common sense goes far in this world
El Griffo:
The driver needs sacking instantly, banning and made to retake his driving test.
How can anyone make an excuse for this.
I’ve been very close to doing that exact thing.
I was doing a school run every day for about 5 weeks, always with a volvo b10b single deck bus, 1 day I had a volvo b10b double deck bus.
After I dropped the kids at Glossop School, I turned left, went down the road, at the cross roads I turned right under a 10’ bridge - VERY close to doing it in the double deck, just caught the periscope in the corner of my eye and went straight across the cross roads instead.
Very easily done - or at least very easily almost done.
When I was cleaning busses - to get away from the pubic (I mean public), a bus was brought into the depot FAR worse than that, roof missing, all upstairs seats bent back or ripped out.
The driver parked the bus up and went cashing in without saying anything to anyone, the roof was still at Georges bridge (near B+Q in Stockport for those that know it) - she was arrested
Thats what happens when you send out vehicles without a driver at the wheel, management to blame employing a monkey.
Thanks the good Lord there were no passengers.
Made me chuckle, as a lad in the Scouts we always used Carters coaches for our trips as the couple who started and ran it had a son who went to our group.
We never got anywhere on time and they were always breaking down but never had anything like this happen.
No excuse for this.but…
I wonder if drivers were paid better we would attract decent drivers rather than some of the retards that seem to be doing the job? 
Truckulent:
I wonder if drivers were paid better we would attract decent drivers rather than some of the retards that seem to be doing the job?
No. You’d just have wealthier retards.
waynedl:
El Griffo:
The driver needs sacking instantly, banning and made to retake his driving test.
How can anyone make an excuse for this.I’ve been very close to doing that exact thing.
I was doing a school run every day for about 5 weeks, always with a volvo b10b single deck bus, 1 day I had a volvo b10b double deck bus.
After I dropped the kids at Glossop School, I turned left, went down the road, at the cross roads I turned right under a 10’ bridge - VERY close to doing it in the double deck, just caught the periscope in the corner of my eye and went straight across the cross roads instead.Very easily done - or at least very easily almost done.
Waynedi you have 3000+ entries on a PROFESSIONAL drivers website so you are totally experienced.
If two of your kids or two of mine or Bewicks grandkids had been sat in the front upper seats of that bus they would have been most likely DEAD.
That driver is a total ZOMBIE and if you had done the same which you didn’t it would have applied to you also.
Please dont try to excuse it because it is sheer ■■■■■■■ negligence.When I was cleaning busses - to get away from the pubic (I mean public), a bus was brought into the depot FAR worse than that, roof missing, all upstairs seats bent back or ripped out.
The driver parked the bus up and went cashing in without saying anything to anyone, the roof was still at Georges bridge (near B+Q in Stockport for those that know it) - she was arrested
No excuse for this, the carnage for anyone on board would of been horrendous. They could put the chains on the road to alert the driver his vehicle is twice the size of the bridge, but then you’d have to be ridiculously thick to tear the roof off a bus like that so doubt it would stop people with such low intelligence anyway
Derf:
Should have dropped the suspension a bit first…
gnasty gnome:
Truckulent:
I wonder if drivers were paid better we would attract decent drivers rather than some of the retards that seem to be doing the job?No. You’d just have wealthier retards.
A solution for the daily mail. Ban buses, all of them. Imprison and kill all the drivers. Oh sorry that’s only what they scream for when a satnav gets a lorry stuck under a bridge.
If you’re driving a single decker all the time and then get chopped over to the double decker and either aren’t paying attention or are distracted then it is possible to forget you’re in a decker!
Saratoga:
If you’re driving a single decker all the time and then get chopped over to the double decker and either aren’t paying attention or are distracted then it is possible to forget you’re in a decker!
Not just possible but extremely easy.
I was lucky, I’d remembered / noticed when I did, because I wouldn’t have slowed down for the bridge since I’d been under it everyday for weeks and had / thought I had inches of clearance.
Yes I agree, if anyone was on board and that’d happened, there’d be hell to pay, but don’t forget, PCV drivers as a rule are on set planned routes, and the only time they have any say in where they go is when running ‘dead’, whereas we’re used to going new places in different vehicles all the time, so we are far more aware of things like bridges.
So…Does a double decker handle the same as a single decker?
Excuse my ignorance, but having never driven a bus, I would have thought that the handling of the vehicle would be different, is it?