The Handcross Disaster.

Progress, Volume II, Issue I, 1 November 1906, Page 11

The Handcross Disaster.

The verdict at the inquiry into the Vanguard disaster, by which ten men lost their lives at Handcross, Eng., on July 12, was returned as follows : The jury found that the accident was caused by a breakage of the machinery brought on by the efforts of the driver to check the speed of the omnibus when he found that it was going too fast. They considered that the driver committed an error of judgment in allowing the omnibus to go at too high a speed. They held no one criminally responsible, but were strongly of opinion that this type of omnibus was unsuitable for use on country roads.