A trentbarton driver had to evacuate a bus which caught fire on a busy Nottinghamshire road. Passengers on the threes service - said to have included two young children - were moved off the bus before the fire took hold.
Flames and thick plumes of smoke billowed from the bus which was left burnt out by the roadside. A trentbarton spokesman said: “One of our threes buses unfortunately caught fire.
"A smell of smoke was reported, and our driver safely moved all the customers off the bus and away to a safe distance before the fire became established. The cause of the fire will be investigated and we apologise to the customers whose journeys were interrupted.”
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The bus caught fire in Osier Drive, near the Sherwood Business Park in Annesley, on Friday morning (December 9). Witness Shania Armstrong, who was on the bus when the fire started, said: "The time was 8.03am when smoke started. It was 8.12am when flames started. Everyone who is on the bus is fine. There were three adults, two teens and two toddlers."
The threes service runs from Nottingham city centre through to Mansfield. Part of the route goes through Newstead Village, Annesley and Sutton-in-Ashfield. Elsewhere across the county, an air ambulance was called to a multi-vehicle crash which closed the A46 near Newark, and three people were taken to hospital.
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