I HAVE just read the Bury Times front page (September 12) and was shocked by the jailing of the bus driver who caused the death of a teenage girl.
Going around Bury Interchange in a vehicle is like negotiating an assault course, except that the obstacles are adults and children! And instances of people running after moving vehicles occur a lot more than people might think.
Drivers have only one pair of eyes, the same as everyone else, and a lot of people in the Interchange also show "an utter disregard" for these moving vehicles and their drivers.
Every driver thinks he is a good driver but accidents still happen and, believe me, you can't always hear everything when you are driving a bus once the doors are closed and you are moving.
Perhaps, what happened so tragically, will serve to remind people just how dangerous it is to run after a moving vehicle of any kind.
BURY BUS DRIVER
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