Red Light Fails to Stop Coach Driver’s Career.

Martin Smith, specialist road transport lawyer, attended a driver conduct hearing before a Traffic Commissioner in order to represent a bus driver who had driven a coach through a red traffic light and had crashed into a central reservation. A number of passengers had been on board and the driver had since failed to cooperate with internal disciplinary procedures.

Martin carefully took the Traffic Commissioner through a chronology of events leading up to the incident and outlined the actions which the driver had since taken. The Traffic Commissioner took the view that a revocation of the driver’s vocational licences was unnecessary and that a suspension was appropriate.