A DOUBLE-DECKER bus lost part of its roof after the driver got it stuck under a bridge taking a short cut to avoid heavy traffic.
The Stagecoach bus was not in service and there was only the driver on board when he wedged it under a railway bridge, which has a maximum height restriction of 13 feet, on Summer Lane.
Police had to redirect traffic after the crash at 8.20am on Tuesday, a recovery team managed to drag the stricken bus free at about 9am, ripping off part of its roof.
A Stagecoach worker at the scene said the bus had not been on its normal route and the driver had only gone up Summer Lane ‘to avoid heavy traffic’ at Town End roundabout.
It isn’t the first time a bus has got stuck under the same bridge. Two years a bus roof was ripped off when a driver ‘forgot he was driving a double-decker,’ according to witnesses.
The bus, which had just dropped children off at Darton High School, was on its way back to the depot when it ran into the bridge.
Sue Hayes, operations director for Stagecoach Yorkshire, said: "We are undertaking an internal investigation to establish further details . There were no passengers on the bus and no one was hurt."
