A coach driver got into a tight squeeze in Buckinghamshire at the end of last month when he misguidedly followed a sat nav’s instructions to follow a route down a small winding country track.
The 56-seater coach was transporting 12 passengers as part of rail replacement bus service between Gerrards Cross and Ruislip when the vehicle got wedged down the country road. The service was not a regular one, and not run as part of any timetable. This could be one of the reasons why the driver was following a sat nav system, which led the vehicle down an unsuitable route.
The road was so tight, that two trees on either side of the track smashed through the windows of the coach. The coach was completely wedged and unable to move, and so the emergency services were called, and the 12 passengers, 6 men and 6 women, were rescued by fire crews.
The fire teams then removed the wing mirrors off the coach and assisted the driver in manoeuvring the vehicle out of the tight spot it had got in to.
A second replacement coach was then sent for to transport the 12 passengers who had been travelling on the original vehicle. No one was hurt in the incident, expect perhaps the coach driver’s pride.
