(25 Sep 2023, 9:14 am)Unber43 wrote A Rotala E200 YX62DHY had its entire wheel come off in service yesterday..not the first time.

with a driver saying if any faults were found to ignore them till they broke down

(26 Sep 2023, 5:24 am)Ianthegoon wrote Think that may be the third case of that within Rotala.

When Stagecoach moved into north Bristol, they picked up nine Rotala vehicles as well as the routes.  All were in service just before the transfer.  Immediately afterwards S/C drafted in replacements while the nine were overhauled.  The first one took over a year to be brought up to a standard S/C would accept.  Of the nine, three were deemed to be too far gone to even be worked on, and were withdrawn.  And they had all apparently been "serviceable" just a few days previously .....

(19 Oct 2023, 3:49 pm)Unber43 wrote I hate to speculate but the recent crash in manchester apparently the driver was reving before he went into the building, perhaps the handbrake slipped off

Its not uncommon for drivers to rev at bus stations

(19 Oct 2023, 4:24 pm)citaro5284 wrote It is quite easy for a driver (not just a bus one) to have an incident by pressing the wrong pedal - thinking your foot is on the brake but it is in the throttle.

Apparently between April 2010 and January 2022, TfL has identified 244 incidents involving buses relating to pedal confusion.