Pages On: Bus Accidents
Buses are typically very safe methods of transport, despite their size and a lack of available seatbelts. But when accidents do happen, they can be very dangerous for passengers, especially those standing.
Leeds couple win compensation following honeymoon road traffic accident
Posted: 22 April 2016
Posted in: Accidents and Sickness Abroad, Bus Accidents, Hand Injuries, Leg Injuries, Road Traffic Accidents, Wrongful & Accidental Death
A couple from Leeds have been awarded compensation following a head-on collision whilst on tour in Italy. The couple, Angela and Simon Howland, were on the holiday of a lifetime, cruising the Mediterranean when the collision occurred. Their tour bus was travelling between Sorrento and Pompeii and was travelling through a tunnel when it was forced to swerve to avoid a head on collision with another vehicle. The bus, which was transporting tourists from the cruise, then crashed into the tunnel wall, causing substantial personal injury to the driver and many…
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Coach owner found guilty following serious injury of young rugby player
Posted: 27 May 2015
Posted in: Arm Injury, Bus Accidents, Public Transport, Road Traffic Accidents
The owner of a coach company has been found guilty of dangerous driving offences after a young boy fell out of a vehicle onto the motorway. The coach had been taking a youth rugby team to a game on 16 May 2014 when one of the passengers, a 13-year-old boy, leaned on a “defective” emergency door and fell out of the vehicle. It was heard in the Bristol Crown Court that the emergency exit door on Keith Jones’s coach was highly unsafe, and recorder Malcolm Gibney warned Mr Jones that…
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Pensioner wins over £80,000 for injuries sustained in bus accident
Posted: 16 May 2015
Posted in: Bus Accidents, Public Transport, Road Traffic Accidents, Spine & Back Injuries
A pensioner has been awarded compensation for her serious injuries after being thrown 15ft down a bus during an accident in Nuneaton. The woman in her 80s, who requests to remain anonymous, received over £80,000 in damages after suffering severe injuries in the accident, including a broken spine and several broken ribs. She had been onboard a Stagecoach bus when the accident happened in Collycroft in November 2012. The bus that the woman had been travelling in was forced to break suddenly when a car pulled out in front of…
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Bus Accident Claims in Bristol – No Win No Fee Compensation
Posted in: Bus Accidents, Public Transport, Road Traffic Accidents
We can help people claim compensation who have been injured in a bus accident in Bristol when: You were working as the driver of the bus, and it wasn’t your faultYou were a passenger on a bus and were hurtYou were hit by a bus as a pedestrian, cyclist, or car driver In simple terms, we can help you to make a bus accident claim in Bristol if we can prove that the accident and injury was not your fault. Examples of Bus Accident Claims Helping bus drivers and passengers…
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Families of injured children take legal action
Posted: 5 August 2014
Posted in: Bus Accidents, Leg Injuries, Neck Injuries, Road Traffic Accidents, School Accidents
The families of 28 injured schoolchildren have launched legal action just over a month after two buses collided during their school runs. The accident happened in County Durham on the 3rd of June when one bus, taking children to Tanfield School, crashed into another bus that had been taking children to St Bede’s School. The two buses crashed head-on in Lanchester, with two drivers and 28 children taken to hospital as a result. The accident happened in Shield Row Lane, near the junction of the A693. One law firm is due to…
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Bus technology to prevent accidents
Posted: 1 August 2014
Posted in: Bicycle Accidents, Bus Accidents, Pedestrian Injuries, Public Transport, Road Traffic Accidents
New detection software has been fitted to four London buses for a trial period of six weeks. The technology will detect pedestrians and cyclists, with the hope that accidents will be greatly reduced on the roads. The software alerts bus drivers when pedestrians and cyclists are close to the vehicle, making drivers more aware of their spatial surroundings. The selected trial buses run on the route 25 and 73, with two different trial systems due to start on the 15th of August. Transport for London plans to trial two different…
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