Coach overturns in motorway crash

[Jeremy]

Just heard this on the afternoon news - looks like it left the motorway with too much speed to handle the curve into the service station. Easily done, actually.

Jeremy

PS. Only a single decker this time - you may remember that the same company (National Express) rolled a double decker coach earlier this year which resulted in two deaths - it so happens they have been reporting in the last week that the driver of that bus has been charged with Causing Death by Dangerous Driving




A coach has overturned on the M1 in Buckinghamshire leaving at least five people seriously injured.
The National Express coach crashed close to the Newport Pagnell service area just after 1600 BST, on the southbound carriageway.

At least 40 people have suffered less serious injuries, a spokeswoman for the South Central Ambulance service said.

The driver of the coach was being cut free by fire crews. Road and air ambulances are at the scene.

A spokesman for Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service, who have been working to release the driver, said the coach appeared to have been the only vehicle involved in the crash, between junctions 14 and 15.

Casualties are being taken to two hospitals, Milton Keynes and John Radcliffe in Oxford.

[FloridaCliff]

Jeremy,

Such a tragedy for a lack of "Common Sense", being in a hurry or something that was controllable.

What a Shame!

Cliff