Dibbles Bridge Crash: UK's Deadliest Road Disaster
A coach carrying elderly day-trippers plunged off Dibbles Bridge near Grassington in the Yorkshire Dales, killing 33 passengers in the worst road accident in British history. The bus had lost its brakes on a steep descent, and the disaster prompted a national overhaul of coach inspection standards and driver licensing requirements for commercial passenger vehicles.
May 27, 1975
51 years ago
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