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[email protected] · December 24th 13, 09:10 AM posted to uk.transport.london

On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 16:07:02 +0000
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 15:41:03 on Sun, 22 Dec
2013, d remarked:
Clearly until there is an outcome from the investigation all of that
is speculation as is allocating "blame" to the bus driver when he was
not the person that triggered the events that caused the collision
with the tree.

Unless the tree jumped in front of his bus then he has to share part of the
blame. No competent driver is going to avoid hitting a car just to drive into
a tree instead.

If he stayed on the road (it's not obvious from the reports/pictures
that he didn't) then I don't blame a bus driver for assuming any
potentially conflicting roadside trees have been cleared away.

Eh? If a tree has a low branch overhanging the road that a bus could hit then
fair enough, but this tree is clearly on the pavement and its not exactly
small. Unless he's clinically blind there is no way he couldn't have seen it.

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Spud