Buses
Crash at Rottingdean in 1959
By Martin Nimmo
The collision mentioned in the Conway Street entry on this site was between a runaway crane and a cream convertible open-top doubledecker of the Brighton Hove and District Omnibus Company. This was OPN 801, the first of the initial batch of Bristol Lodekkas delivered in 1959, and took place in about 1965. There were no serious injuries (there were no passengers), and the bus, despite its mangled appearance, was repaired by Eastern Coachworks of Lowestoft and returned to service in Brighton for the next few years before sale to Hants and Dorset.
The damaged bus photographed outside the White Horse Hotel in Rottingdean.
Photo courtesy of The Evening Argus
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