This will be the last entry for about 9 days, we’re off to Majorca in a few hours.<\/p>\n
I’ve just got home having finished the dreaded 193 duty which again wasn’t all a smooth ride. On my first circuit of the town a very well built lady hit the floor like a sack of coal! She’d tried to sit down in the pushchair area where the seat squabs are sprung to fold the seat up when no one is sitting on it. She’d failed to notice that the seat was folded up and just threw her not inconsiderable sized behind at the non-existent seat! She insisted she was fine and wouldn’t give me her name even though I told her I needed it to report the accident. When she got off she appeared to be in considerable pain and had difficulty walking. I went straight to one of our Controllers to report what happened and was advised that I must go and report it to the Police which I did. After that I had to complete a company accident form.<\/p>\n
A few weeks ago one of our drivers was taken to Court for failing to take proper care of passengers (or wording similar to that), causing injury and failing to report the accident. It involved a 5 year old who wouldn’t sit still on the bus and was running riot up and down the aisle while mother did nothing. He tripped and cut his head (minor). Next thing mother was at the Police station blaming it all on the driver. On the day of the hearing the Police tried to do a deal – plead guilty to one charge and we’ll drop the others. The driver would have nothing of it, they’d asked the mother to contol the child which she’d failed to do and it didn’t fall due to the movement of the bus, it tripped up because it was running. The Magistrates found the driver not guilty of all charges :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This will be the last entry for about 9 days, we’re off to Majorca in a few hours. I’ve just got home having finished the dreaded 193 duty which again wasn’t all a smooth ride. On my first circuit of the town a very well built lady hit the floor like a sack of coal! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}