Cambridgeshire County Council handed court date over busway deaths
It follows three deaths on the busway
Last updated 8th May 2024
Cambridgeshire County Council has been served a court summons after the deaths of three people on a guided busway.
In May 2023, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) announced it had started prosecutions against the authority following an investigation.
Jennifer Taylor, Steve Moir and Kathleen Pitts all died in collisions with buses on Cambridgeshire's busway between 2015 and 2021.
Jennifer, 81, and her husband, who was not injured, were walking along the busway road when she was struck by a bus in 2015.
Steve Moir, 50, a cyclist, died after colliding with a bus on the section of the busway between Cambridge railway station and Long Road on 13 September 2018.
Kathleen Pitts, 52, who was on foot, died after being hit by a bus on the section of the busway, also between Cambridge railway station and Long Road on 26 October 2021.
A fourth person, a teenage cyclist, was seriously injured when he collided with a bus in the guided section of the busway parallel to Kings Hedges Road on 9 November 2021.
Cambridgeshire County Council will face a charge under s3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.
The charge follows an extensive investigation by HSE.
The HSE is Britain’s national regulator for workplace health and safety, aimed at preventing work-related death, injury and ill health.
A first hearing date will be confirmed in due course.