http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/4422040.stm
If that was on the railways, the driver would not be allowed to drive the train, and rightly so.
So, why is the bus company not in trouble? Why are the rules different?
If there had been 5 deaths on the railways due to an incident like this it would have been covered extensively in the media (and probably had a silly documentary made about it to make the whole industry look bad), there would have been outrage in the media. Rail safety would be called into question. They would quote witnesses saying how 'dangerous' rail travel is.
Yet I don't remember hearing about this crash at the time.
And there is no attempt to blame anyone but the driver.
Why are buses so different?
Why are these 5 lives considered to be less important and far less of a concern than the 4 lives who died at Hatfield?
Why does this story just get a small mention, blaming just one man, yet something like the Hatfield crash has has an in depth feature on it (even though Hatfield was just one man's fault, unlike this one)?
As he drove away, prosecutor Michael Fowler said, the driver, who was covering a shift in a bus he had not driven before, suffered "pedal confusion".
He hit the accelerator instead of the brake, causing the packed double-decker to "leap forward".
If that was on the railways, the driver would not be allowed to drive the train, and rightly so.
So, why is the bus company not in trouble? Why are the rules different?
If there had been 5 deaths on the railways due to an incident like this it would have been covered extensively in the media (and probably had a silly documentary made about it to make the whole industry look bad), there would have been outrage in the media. Rail safety would be called into question. They would quote witnesses saying how 'dangerous' rail travel is.
Yet I don't remember hearing about this crash at the time.
And there is no attempt to blame anyone but the driver.
Why are buses so different?
Why are these 5 lives considered to be less important and far less of a concern than the 4 lives who died at Hatfield?
Why does this story just get a small mention, blaming just one man, yet something like the Hatfield crash has has an in depth feature on it (even though Hatfield was just one man's fault, unlike this one)?