There's a bloke in Hebburn, about 25 years ago he went to cross the road but got hit by the 528, he flew across the road and the 544 was coming the other way and caught him on the volley. He survived. He got brain damage off it, and he's really slow now. He walks with a limp, but still gets around. Lucky ****er.
cant remember that one, but there was a double decker bus carrying school kids tried to go under a rail bridge that was only high enough for a single decker. Peeled the top off like a can of sardines, couple of young school kids got badly hurt but luckily no one died.
Its like the idiots who go to Holy Island and think they know better than the tide tables and make a dash to get over the causeway before the tide comes in. End you spending a few hours in one of the refuges watch their car float away. There was the case the other year when a bus driver with a tour party from down south was late so tried to out run the tide and ended up with all of his passengers on the roof!
Oh yes I've been on a bus which nearly did. The panic on the top deck was mental as the bus turned left off the bypass onto Neasham Road.
Scarry stuff, remember being on the top deck of a bus when it tried to remove the cast iron cantilever roof on a listed warehouse on Sunderland docks. The bus lost a fair bit of its roof before grinding to a stop, no one was hurt even though the bus was packed, barrier practice in the old Fulwell End came in handy.
Just a day in the life down on the docks mate, the driver was in a bit of a state mind, with everybody giving him hell, cos we had to wait for another bus.
The bit that tickled me was him being pronounced dead on the scene: Group of cops standing round a headless body "Yep, he's dead alright"
