Bus Accidents/Incidents.

[John]

Coach stuck in an arch in Alnwick, Northumberland. Pictures are off Facebook

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[Tony]

And that's why NXWM are banned from using the motorway. The training school are anyway due to the Merc catching fire a couple years ago lol.

Apparently before, the coaches would go as far as Oxford on training.

I still use the motorway regularly, I'd never get to Dundee on A roads

[John]

Green Bus Trident catches Fire on the M6.
http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2016/05/23/serious-collision-causes-traffic-delays-on-the-m6/

One of the 'PO51' Presidents by the look of it

Some better pictures on the Mail
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/watch-schoolchildren-escape-dramatic-coach-11374388

[Tony]

One of the 'PO51' Presidents by the look of it

Some better pictures on the Mail
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/watch-schoolchildren-escape-dramatic-coach-11374388

Rumours I am hearing are it was 104

[Will]

I still use the motorway regularly, I'd never get to Dundee on A roads

I'm led to believe that no Diamond service buses are allowed to go on the motorway not sure how true it is but that's what I heard from someone

[GeminiFan1991]

I'm led to believe that no Diamond service buses are allowed to go on the motorway not sure how true it is but that's what I heard from someone

Exactly why is it that buses aren't allowed on motorways ? If I was a driver, it'd be quite the bore traveling at a reduced speed on a seemingly endless pile of tarmac.

[Liverpool Street]

Buses aren't allowed to use motorways?
What is this horse shit

[MW]

You lot have interpreted it as some sort of Highway Code rule,

No, the company, or at least the Driving School bit aren't allowed on the motorway since the incident with the Merc catching fire, or at least this is what I was told at the training centre.

Of course buses in general are allowed on the motorway, you see Routemasters all the time being delivered going on the M6.

With regards to Diamond, I saw a Diamond streetlite on Saturday evening on the M42 displaying Private Hire, and another the week before which was presumably being delivered, but as Will says, it's service buses that he believes can't go on the motorways.

[Westy]

Didnt stop the X31!

[JoNi]

There are many examples of service buses scheduled to use motorways. Witchway between Manchester and Burnley indeed it has now been routed between Burnley and Colne via motorway on its extension to Skipton.
Arriva buses use the M2 in Kent to get from the Medway Towns to Bluewater are just two that come to mind.

[jc]

Diamond's signature fleet crawl up and down the M42 from Redditch to Solihull and vice versa on a daily basis, quite annoying having to overtake one doing about 20mph up hill on a 70mph motorway

[Tony]

As MW rightly said, since the Mercedes fire the training school aren't allowed to take trainees on the Motorway any more, but there is no 'universal' company ban. If I couldn't use the Motorway to Dundee I wouldn't be able to get there with the daily driving limit.

[Liverpool Street]

As MW rightly said, since the Mercedes fire the training school aren't allowed to take trainees on the Motorway any more, but there is no 'universal' company ban. If I couldn't use the Motorway to Dundee I wouldn't be able to get there with the daily driving limit.

Good luck getting to V Fest without motorways in the future haha

[Liam]

I saw 4579 parked up at the side of a road with hazards on with board saying 'Not in Service' Then the driver started the engine and drove off still 'N.I.S'

Happened about 10 past 8 this morning on the Lichfield Road outside Wednesfield High

[Trident 4609]

I saw 4579 parked up at the side of a road with hazards on with board saying 'Not in Service' Then the driver started the engine and drove off still 'N.I.S'

Happened about 10 past 8 this morning on the Lichfield Road outside Wednesfield High

Chances are the bus either broke down or driver had been adjusted and was waiting time.