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Parking problem? Well, yes - a big one, actually
6:36pm Saturday 17th May 2008
A bus displaying the message "parking problem? - maybe you're the problem!" had to be towed away after reversing into a damaged bollard.
The 5A bus was travelling along Poplar Avenue, in Hangleton, Hove, on Thursday when it met an oncoming vehicle.
To allow the vehicle to pass, the bus had to reverse but the driver did not see a bollard.
Roger French, the managing director of Brighton and Hove Buses, said: "The bollard was already knocked over and the concrete base was sticking up. The driver couldn't see the concrete and reversed over it."
No one is believed to have been injured in the crash which happened at about 1.30pm yesterday.
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Major Blyth-Smith, 3rd Foot and Mouth, says...
7:04pm Sat 17 May 08
No one is believed to have been injured in the crash which happened at about 1.30pm yesterday.
CRASH FFS, its a dent - unless he was reversing at 30mph.
cops being photographed for parking, now buses being reported for reversing into something - The Argus is showing its self to be a 2 bit provincial comic
georgy girl, shoreham says...
7:06pm Sat 17 May 08
jim bob, brighton says...
7:39pm Sat 17 May 08
b.driver, on your tail in queens road says...
7:45pm Sat 17 May 08
b.driver, says...
7:46pm Sat 17 May 08
jim bob, brighton says...
7:53pm Sat 17 May 08
ExMotorist, says...
8:34pm Sat 17 May 08
B G Gruff, Hove says...
8:55pm Sat 17 May 08
william of orange, Brighton says...
12:08am Sun 18 May 08
Yawn....
Not news..the only question here is why are we routing buses down roads where vehicles obviously can't pass each other?
david cameron-young, abingdon says...
7:26am Sun 18 May 08
Ray, says...
8:49am Sun 18 May 08
B G Gruff wrote:I tell you what would have been a better play on a message. That of The Big Lemon bus which says 'This bus runs's on Bio Diesel Save the planet' Whilst filling up at BP Lewes Road on proper Diesel.
Unfortunately the hlarious play on the problem parking message doesn't work as the bus wasn't parking, now if the message had said 'reversing problem - maybe you are the problem!' i would be holding my sides in fits of laughter at the argus's clever reporting.
Dave, Wivelsfield says...
8:55am Sun 18 May 08
b.driver wrote:Please advise of all 4 foot long cars.
driver of bus should of had to reverse anyway,it's 40 foot long and the car is a tenth it's size,it was probably some bloody minded prat in the car whom insisted on making the bus reverse,probably under duress.as most car drivers have no or little respect for other road users especially buses,especially in hanglton.
maddog, says...
9:49am Sun 18 May 08
scared of bus drivers, top deck (not the shandy) says...
12:50pm Sun 18 May 08
Major Blyth-Smith, 3rd Foot and Mouth, says...
1:07pm Sun 18 May 08
And if the driver didn;t see it, how did they know it had already been knocked over?
caeos, says...
1:24pm Sun 18 May 08
bill, brighton says...
3:47pm Sun 18 May 08
Bob, says...
4:14pm Sun 18 May 08
Darryl, says...
6:27pm Sun 18 May 08
bill wrote:Why no report in the on-line edition?
why no comments about the fare hike?
jim bob, brighton says...
9:09pm Sun 18 May 08
michael petrie, lancing says...
10:04pm Sun 18 May 08
Darryl wrote:This bus driver if he knew his PSV rules , it states that a PCV vehicle mustn't reververse without proper supervison e.g police officer etc.
bill wrote: why no comments about the fare hike?Why no report in the on-line edition?
I've got a big, hard says...
9:37am Mon 19 May 08
b.driver, says...
10:26am Mon 19 May 08
jim bob wrote:PATRONISE!! i have been driving anything from RM's to Alexander Tridents to 28 seat minis for 30 years so no i am not patronising ,just making it clear that health and safety destroy all types of skills and we are Patronised by them
sorry b driver you have just lost your argument trying to insult a fellow driver, when i was driving busses we had crash gear boxes and had to drive the things not molly codled like you are today so please dont patronise me
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Dave, Brighton says...
6:52pm Sat 17 May 08
*weaps a little*