Cambridgeshire County Council fined £6m over busway deaths
Cambridgeshire County Council runs the transport link that serves Cambridge, St Ives and Huntingdon. It opened in 2011 and much of the 16-mile (26km) route involves a modified bus being guided along a track.Ms Taylor, 81, was hit by a bus when she crossed the track on foot at Fen Drayton in November 2015.Mr Moir, 50, fell into the path of a bus after clipping a kerb with his bicycle that separated him from the busway in Cambridge, in September 2018.Pedestrian Kathleen Pitts, 52, was struck by a bus on the same stretch in October 2021.The county council previously admitted two charges under Section 3 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, relating to the public trying to cross the busway at designated crossings and being struck while moving alongside the busway.
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