THREE Girl Guides and two leaders from Drumchapel were killed when a double-decker bus hit a low bridge in Glasgow's West Street in 1994. A total of 15 other Guides were injured. The group was returning from a trip to Butlins.
Warning signs and road safety measures were later improved at the bridge, which is the site of an average 15 crashes a year.
Bus driver Campbell Devlin was cleared of causing the deaths of his passengers but convicted of the lesser charge of careless driving.
Three days ago, 12 people were injured when a double-decker bus crashed into a railway bridge in Redruth, Cornwall. The top of the bus was sliced off and the victims were treated for shock and cuts from flying glass.
Three people were injured when a bus-driver took the wrong route in south London in 1994. The top of the bus was cut cleanly off and the passengers were described as ``very lucky'' to escape serious injury.
Nine members of Reading University Conservative Association were injured, one seriously, when their double-decker drove into a low bridge in 1994.
.q.The Department of Transport launched a campaign last year to reduce ``bridge bashing''. They estimate 700 bridges a year get hit, costing several lives and more than #5m in repair bills.
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