These photos have suffered from the ravages of time, but do show that Reg Bull was always on hand to capture Nuneaton moments and events, of all significance. Here, we see an overturned bus, the aftermath of an accident.
In collision with a motorcycle
On the 19th November 1957, the Nuneaton Observer reported 21 injured when a double-decker bus overturned in Griff Hollows, Nuneaton, after being in collision with a motorcycle. The motorcyclist later died.
Following the crash the injured were laid along the roadside and then taken to Manor Hospital, Nuneaton, by ambulances from Nuneaton and Bedworth. A fireman commented “It was like a battlefield.”
Blocked for three and a half hours
Having blocked the road for three and a half hours, the bus was dragged on its side for 150 yards to the bottom of Griff Hollows to then be righted and towed.
Comments
I am trying to piece together the story of my mum’s life. I know she was involved in an accident involving a bus in or around Coventry around 1957 when she was 15 and was pillion passenger on a motorbike. Is there any way of finding out the names of the people involved here to see if this was the accident? Her name was Carole Antoinette Miller.
Could have been known as Carole Antoinette Harrison
Hi Gina.
Sorry about the delay in replying to your enquiry. I was on the bus and was one of the injured taken to hospital. The only Carol was a miss Carol Bakewell 15 years old of Poplar Avenue, bedworth and she was on the bus not on the mother bike and it was a male on the pillion. I hope this answers your question.
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