Staff Reporter| The Greyhound bus accident in South Africa which saw the vehicle going on fire yesterday has been officially confirmed by the company who say the bus driver managed to escape.
The Bulawayo bound Greyhound bus was gutted by fire while parked in Louis Trichardt yesterday.
ZimEye received the first report which has been confirmed by the bus company. A receptionist confirmed the incident early Sunday morning saying, “there was no one in the bus, it was a stationary bus and no one was hurt.”
Questioned on the bus driver and conductor she replied saying, “it was only the driver,” but would not go into details on the driver’s condition.
More details.
More details came out on a second call when another receptionist, a male, said the driver managed to escape. He said, the bus was traveling from Johannesburg to Musina to pick up stranded passengers who were going to Zimbabwe, as there was a breakdown of another Greyhound bus.
“The driver managed to escape unhurt,” he said.
– this is a developing report – REFRESH THIS PAGE FOR UPDATES. The problem of buses catching fire is not uncommon, and in the UK for instance in December 2016, a double decker bus went on fire and emergency services called upon to bring the blaze under control.
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— Joel Evans (@JoelGEvans) December 1, 2016