THE driver of a bus which careered out of control in Glasgow city centre, injuring pedestrians, has been suspended amid claims that he may have parked the vehicle without securing the handbrake.
Eyewitnesses described seeing the driver chasing after the “runaway” First Bus as it hurtled down the city’s Renfield Street yesterday afternoon, minutes after he stopped to buy a drink at a nearby shop.
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The empty vehicle crashed into stationary traffic and left two male bystanders requiring hospital treatment. Their injuries are not believed to be serious.
The double-decker struck two buses and a parked car as it travelled some 300ft, shunting one of the vehicles into a collision with a third bus.
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First Bus saidthat the driver has been suspended pending an investigation but said it was “too early to speculate” on the cause of the incident.
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