Arriva North West - Southport Depot

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RE: Arriva North West - Southport Depot
Oddly, when I was involved in a fatal RTC whilst in service the operations manager flatly refused to transfer the bus I was driving out of the depot despite my request. He cited differences in fare-collection equipment and assault screens as the reason, but I'd imagine that it's only a matter of a couple of hour's work to adapt these to another depot's requirements.

Seeing the bus reguarly once I returned to work did not help my mental recovery and probably contributed to my leaving Arriva about four months later.

I'm now back at the same garage and regularly drive the route on which the RTC occurred. I'm not religious in any way, but whenever I pass the spot at which the collision happened, I always have a little 'think' about the lady who lost her life.

My thoughts are with the family of the lady killed in the recent accident, and also with my colleague and friend.