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Posted by ken page
on 22/7/2008, 8:12 am
Does Anyone remem ber the school bus crash at wayletts junction with the A127? ,it would have been around 1956/57,I caught the schoolbus at the bottom of Second Ave on Lower Dunton Road along with a few other local kids. It was very very foggy a real peasouper,we crept along LDR dropped off some kids at Dunton school then crept on to the A127. The poor driver had to open the door and his window and get us kids to be quiet
while he listened for oncoming traffic.He took a punt and got to the centre reservation ;unfortunatly the bus stuck out into the London bound lane, it was only a few seconds before a car ploughed into us followed by several more the all we could hear was the screech of tyres and thumps and bangs as cars crashed into each other in the fog.Eventually we cleared the intersection and after quite a while the fog cleared enough to see the carnage on both sides of the A127,we didnt get to school til halfway thruogh the morning,another bus had to be sent to pick us up because of the damage to ours,quite an exciting start for the day
I dont know what happened to our driver butnowdays he would have been charged with something thats for sure ,regards Ken
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