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Old May 20th 08, 11:44 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Bus hits tree

On May 20, 12:36 pm, Ernst S Blofeld
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Adrian wrote:
The pic shows that the roof pillars have bent, and the main roof itself
is damaged. The bars are just to push smaller branches out the way - they
won't protect against a trunk or solid branch strike. The driver's meant
to do that bit.


There's a better(*) pic here;

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article....148564&in_page...

(*) At time of writing (the BBC article is subject to updates).


Thats a large chunk of tree. You'd think the driver could hardly fail
to spot it in the way though they seem not to spot low bridges either
so who knows. I wonder if the bus was on diversion.

B2003