{"id":11732,"date":"2024-09-18T22:48:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T22:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/double-decker-bus-crashes-into-railway-bridge-in-bath\/"},"modified":"2024-09-18T22:48:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T22:48:06","slug":"double-decker-bus-crashes-into-railway-bridge-in-bath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/double-decker-bus-crashes-into-railway-bridge-in-bath\/","title":{"rendered":"Double-decker bus crashes into railway bridge in Bath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A double-decker bus has crashed into a low-lying railway bridge after trying to pass underneath it.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Avon and Somerset Police were called to the bridge in Lower Bristol Road in Twerton, near Bath, shortly before 20:30 BST on Wednesday.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">No one is believed to have been injured in the crash, which involved a vehicle run by operator First Bus. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A structural engineer is due to attend the scene later to assess any damage to the bridge, before vehicle recovery work can be carried out, police said.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Road users are being advised to find alternative routes until the road has been cleared.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The bridge was the site of a <!-- --><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-somerset-65489111\" class=\"sc-c9299ecf-0 bZUiKB\" rel=\"noopener\">similar crash<!-- --><\/a> in May last year, after a U5 Bath City bus made the same error.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cvgwre10vxlo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A double-decker bus has crashed into a low-lying railway bridge after trying to pass underneath it. Avon and Somerset Police were called to the bridge in Lower Bristol Road in Twerton, near Bath, shortly before 20:30 BST on Wednesday. No one is believed to have been injured in the crash, which involved a vehicle run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[2256,3056,3524,5176,5478,3647],"class_list":["post-11732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-england","tag-bath","tag-bridge","tag-bus","tag-crashes","tag-doubledecker","tag-railway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11734,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11732\/revisions\/11734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}