Several injured in Scotland rail bridge crash
A Glasgow bus has crashed into one of the city’s notoriously low railway bridges. The accident has left several people in hospital, one of them critically injured. The accident came just a day after another rail-adjacent incident in Scotland, which closed the West Coast Main Line and injured one person.
Scotland’s narrow escape on Friday was, tragically followed up by a much more serious incident on Saturday. On Friday, a single truck left the road and crashed onto railway tracks. On Saturday, a bus crashed into a bridge in central Glasgow, resulting in several casualties. The incident caused major disruption to both road and rail traffic. Ironically, the national infrastructure agency had just relaunched a “bridge bashing” awareness campaign.
Premature relief at avoiding disaster
A collective sigh of relief was expressed after Friday’s lorry crash proved more spectacular than calamitous. Saturday’s incident, which is still under investigation by Police Scotland and the Rail Accident Investigation Branch, was much more serious, and also caused major rail and road disruption.
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