Burnley Civic Trust Heritage Image Collection

Driver Injured

11 Feb 1989
Padiham Road, Burnley

Media Ref: BE89ng39722
Driver Injured

A car driver was taken to hospital with neck and chest injuries after an accident involving a Whizzard bus on Padiham Road Burnley, on Saturday 11th February 1989.

Mr Alistair Duncan Scott, 33, of Every Street, Burnley, was driving a Vauxhall Carlton car which ended up wedged under the back of the Ightenhill circular bus near a bus stop. He was released after treatment and the bus driver, Mr Andrew Smith, 25, of Whitegate Gardens, Padiham, was unhurt. A police report mentions another vehicle, a brown Mini, which is also thought to have been involved but the driver is unknown.

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