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Service overhaul at death coach garage
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MORE stringent maintenance procedures have been drawn up by West Yorkshire PTE, following the accident earlier this year in which five police pfficers died in one of its :!oaches.
This was announced after :he PTE was fined £60 and Iriver Maurice Garside was Oven an absolute discharge or using the vehicle with deective brakes.
The 1972 Ford had been ransferred within the PTE's detrocoach division to a de)ot with only Bedfords and xylands, and there had been a nisunderstanding over which lepot was responsible for naintenance. It has now arranged for brakes to be checked weekly, and for spot checks to be carried out on coaches. An additional vehicle examiner is being taken on to the staff and another vacancy has been created for someone to check vehicle maintenance records.
A rule has also been established that where a vehicle is moved to another depot, the new depot will be responsible for all maintenance from that date.
Wakefield magistrates were told last week that Mr Garside was seriously injured in the accident, and that he still walks with a stick. He has still to decide whether or not to continue driving.
Mr Garside told the magistrates that he had never driven the coach before the accident, and nothing had happened before the accident — in which the coach overturned on a dangerous roundabout — to make him suspect that anything was wrong with it.
The coach was taking the police party to the Police Federation conference in Blackpool, and 25 passengers were injured in addition to the three men and two women who died.
A PTE spokesman said: "We regret that this action has been necessary and that an accident occurred."