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Do no harm

Safety has to be the watchword for all bus and coach operators says John Lewis

Tyre and wheel safety are vitally important

Travelling by coach or bus is one of the safest ways of getting from A to B. Thousands and thousands of passengers do so every day without coming to grief. Yet although it is safe, incidents leading to death or injury are not unknown, and every such incident is an incident too many. A total of 25 people were killed by buses in London during 2015 and 2016 and a further 12,000 injured, mostly by slips, trips or falls, according to the London Assembly’s Driven to Distraction report published in 2017. […]

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