I was stunned. Since I hadn’t noticed her before the incident, there was nothing I could have done. “I had no influence over this terrible accident.
There was nothing I could have done differently. She wasn’t visible to me until we collided. I was unaware that she was rushing to catch my bus.
We frequently receive people from the public hammering on the windows and requesting that we stop the bus. We are unable to accomplish that. The law forbids it.”
Mr. Watson had been a bus driver for 14 years, and 11 of those years had been spent on the 49 route before the crash, according to testimony given at the inquiry.
“Quick and certainly what the police considered to be reasonable” was how Coroner Hartley described the driver’s response to Hailey’s “sudden” appearance at the bus’s side.
Additionally, Hailey would “not have been obvious” to Mr. Watson. The driver stated in his statement: “I consider the collision every day.
