Happened around 12 today at Spendmore Lane, Coppull. 30 kids were accessed, 8 were treated at the scene and one 8 year old boy was taken to hospital after getting a cut on his head, absolutely lucky that weren’t more serious injuries or worse after this.
You can see that the LOW BRIDGE sign must have been clearly visible to the driver as he approached. Especially if they have children in the bus, you have to wonder what they are thinking.
"I hope that someone already checked all that limits before assigning me on this route"
The driver was probably reminiscing about their own school days, and Shakespeare's line, "Off with his head!"
You assume the driver can read.
I used to live in Coppull it was always getting hit this bridge, never saw anything this bad though.
What's up with all these busses hitting bridges lately. Do they not have predetermined routes
Probably road closures and diversion or driver gone the wrong way by accident. Also with this being a school bus it’s rare for the UK to have actual school bus routes, while some places here have them but most usually schools don’t. When a school bus is used it’s for a school trip and is usually hired, so sometimes the driver has never been to that school before and was relying on a car sat nav / google maps with no height restriction.
It happened at 12:30 so that'll be a school trip.
Source: BBC News - Children hurt as roof of school bus ripped off by Coppull bridge - BBC News
Also, for the no injuries comment by OP:
That one went to hospital, the rest were dealt with at the scene.
As for the Satnav, I worked somewhere that used this: CoPilot Truck
What OP has said, but in addition, there’s the occasion where a route planner will see a busy overcrowded route and say to themselves “we can solve this problem by changing the single decker bus to a double decker” not questioning why the route was a single decker in the first place.
Do you mean to reverse and change it from double decker to single decker?
Can't kids only receive minor injuries, since they aren't adults . . .
I only make this joke because they are all okay. That must have been terrifying
Living near this bridge is something alright. Seems like there's always some drama happening. Mostly from it getting smashed into but also other stuff like car crashes (the tight bend doesn't help), nearly getting run over from people speeding around said tight bend, a tree falling across the bus stop once which thankfully didn't hit any vehicles or people at all. Missed this one by like 30 minutes. Insanity. Thing is this is a main road, and there's like two detours to avoid going under the bridge which aren't that close for some and not everyone might know, so you get this situation where drivers of lorries and busses that don't plan their route deciding to use this main road, getting smashed up by this bridge or struggling to get around the corner without hitting something else, or a massive lorry realises "oh shit" at the last second, and has to try and reverse it back (on a main road, when it's sometimes very busy).
A little bit off the top mate
That must've been terrifying for the kids. Glad none of them were severely injured or worse.
On the plus side, London has another open double-decker for tourists.
Double-decker bus? Terrifying.
The driver should not be allowed near the wheel again.
Do these people get their license from a cereal box?
Surely it wouldn't be difficult to fit some type of radar device at the top corners of the bus to alert the driver (or even hit the brakes) when there is something solid in front of them.
This is an old bus - older, used buses are usually used by schools in the U.K., since they’re cheaper, and this bus body model was made from 1997 to 2006, so is at least 19 years old, where most buses used by large bus companies are retired by around 20 years old, to sell to companies which run school routes, etc. - so it wouldn’t be cost-effective to fit a new system to such buses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_ALX400
Only minor Injuries? Well its a bloody good thing the kids on the bus were all genetically-enhanced super soldiers!
"So this was his 'shortcut'"