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SURVEYS of bus and coach operations over a 12-month period are to be carried out as part of an inquiry into the relative safety of full and part-time drivers.
The inquiry is to be headed by Dr Tim Hunt of the Cambridge University School of Clinical Medicine and follows the accidents at Devils' Bridge in the Lake District last year in which pensioners died in a coach driven by a part-timer.
A pilot study of between 400 and 500 operators in the East Midlands and East Anglia will be first, and the main study will follow. The whole project is expected to take up to 15 months to complete.
Both the Transport and General Workers Union and the Confederation of British Road Passenger Transport are to co-operate with the study team.
The inquiry was announced in the House of Commons in February 1976 when the Department of Environment (now Transport) announced that it had found no evidence that part-time drivers were more accident prone than the full-time men.