Cambridge guided busway accident?

[Mvann]

Just heard on the Radio that a bus on the Cambridge guided busway has come off the track and nearly overturned.

 

[Eagle]

Cambridgeshire guided bus comes off tracks

A driver has been taken to hospital after his bus came off the guided busway tracks in Cambridgeshire. Police said it happened just after 15:00 GMT and no passengers are thought to have been injured. Stagecoach said the driver misjudged an entrance to the busway between Swavesey and Longstanton and had been taken to hospital for treatment. The firm's managing director Andy Campbell said services were still running, but diversions were in place. Witnesses said the bus had been left at a 45-degree angle on the busway.

Full story

 

[Mvann]

Thanks for that. Only just heard about it on the travel bulletin on the way home from work.

 

[wintonian]

Just goes to show how misguided these busways are.

Glad no-one was hurt though.

 

[MK Tom]

If it was driver misjudgement as the article says then the design of the guideway, whatever you think of it for other reasons, can't be blamed at this stage.

 

[Deerfold]

Just goes to show how misguided these busways are.

Glad no-one was hurt though.

Perhaps we ought to get rid of those dangerous road things...

 

[wintonian]

Perhaps we ought to get rid of those dangerous road things...

Lets replace them with much safer third rail electrification.

 

[fgwrich]

Lets replace them with much safer third rail electrification.

Third rail? Overheads please! Then they can be used in city centres...

(And i wasnt talking about trolleybuses, although they do still use them on the continent...where a word called 'common & sense' regulary spring to mind!)...

 

[LE Greys]

I'm just waiting for the occasion when a pile of leaves/debris/earth/snow/whatever builds up on a guideway and tips something over the edge. Such accidents were a regular feature of plateways, and one of the many reasons that most of them ended up as railways before long.

 

[D365]

That's one of the many things I've been worried about in regards to busways... Glad everyone's alright though.

 

[MCW]

glad no one was hurt!

I think we need trolleybuses again....

 

[34D]

Driver of a car on the M1 misjudged a bend and caused minor injuries - happens every day.

 

[D365]

But it would be better if it didn't - we must always strive to improve.