Motorway bus Crashes

The recent serious accident near Reading where an Aberdeen bound National Express Neoplan Double-Decker overturned on a slip-road has once again brought to the public's attention the perils of coach travel. In fact in the U.K. these sort of fatal accidents are quite rare but double-deck coaches have had a chequered career and especially after one of the Standerwick Bristol VR coaches toppled over on to the central reservation of the M1. The giant Stagecoach of today cut it's teeth on a budget express coach from Edinburgh to London in the early Eighties and this Neoplan came to grief on the motorway near Stafford.