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GMPTE served with HSE improvement notice

10/05/2007

The Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive (GMPTE) has been told by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to improve bus station facilities in the city-region.

It follows three incidents that resulted in three fatalities and one serious injury in Bury, Oldham and Ashton-Under-Lyne.

Last July, a married couple were killed after being hit by a bus while they used a designated pedestrian crossing point at Bury Interchange.

In January, a woman was killed by a bus at Cheapside station in Oldham while using a crossing point and in February, a woman suffered a broken shoulder and head injuries after being hit by a bus at Ashton-Under-Lyne station.

"Each of the incidents has occurred in the past ten months while pedestrians were using designated crossing points and each is being investigated by HSE inspectors," says HSE north-west head of operations David Sowerby.

"Following these fatalities and the other incident in 2007, we have now taken a wider look at the issue of pedestrian safety and are working with GMPTE."

GMPTE must now take a closer look at its 22 bus stations and make an assessment of the risks to the safety of its employees and the public.

Last November, a man died after falling from a crane into the path of a double-decker bus in Rusholme.

A UK North bus collided with the crane, which caused the man, who was replacing windows on a building, to fall from the crane's bucket and become trapped under the bus.



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