Bus driver suspended after M74 bridge death
Woman was hit after jumping from motorway bridge near Glasgow.
Source: STV News
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22 March 2010 11:46 GMT
The driver of a bus that hit a woman who had jumped from a motorway bridge near Glasgow has been suspended.
The 45-year-old woman was believed to have been hit by the vehicle on the M74 on Saturday night after it left Glasgow's Buchanan Bus Station at 11pm heading for London. The driver continued for 150 miles after the accident.
The Megabus service, which was operated by transport company Stagecoach, had begun its journey in Aberdeen and
following the accident the driver did not stop the vehicle until its first scheduled stop after Glasgow which was in Preston.
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One passenger on the bus told STV News that the driver failed to stop even when he was told he had hit someone.
John Thompson said: "I said to the driver, 'you've hit a human being there,' but he kept on going. You could hear it being dragged under the bus for a while."
Mr Thompson added that the driver had announced over the bus's public address system :
"The bus hit a woman outside Glasgow and if we'd stopped, you'd have been at the side of the motorway all night."
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