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As regards driving buses in the wind, yonks ago when I was working for Busways at Byker we had a little trip over to the Northern depot at Bensham for a spare part. (One of the fitters used to work there and knew someone who knew someone etc....). Yours truly drove an Atlantean over there to pick up the part as it was needed for that bus and as it was a windy day I decided to take the Tyne Bridge instead of the Redheugh due to the winds. Anyway crossing the Tyne Bridge heading south I was in the right hand lane ready to turn right into Hills St and a huge gust of wind from the right hit the bus and before I knew it I was putting a half turn to the right on the wheel to keep it straight and even then I was still blown over into the left hand lane. If anyone was there I would have hit them but luckily there wasn't. Scared the ever loving doodoo out of me that is for sure. Wasn't even doing 20mph at the time. I can totally imagine the driver of the Metrobus in the video being caught unaware by a rogue gust. Scary stuff.

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