£6m fine for Cambridgeshire County Council after decade of safety failings led to three deaths on guided busway

Council fined £6 million after deaths and injuries on guided busway

Judge Mark Bishop said that Cambridgeshire County Council had taken a ‘rigid and blinkered approach to safety issues’. A judge has fined a local authority £6 million for health and safety breaches on the world’s longest guided busway following three deaths and multiple incidents of injury. Judge Mark Bishop said that Cambridgeshire County Council had taken a “rigid and blinkered approach to safety issues” in its management of the Cambridgeshire …

£6m fine for Cambridgeshire County Council after decade of safety failings led to three deaths on guided busway

It chose to appeal even after initial enforcement action by regulator.

Cambridgeshire fined £6m after busway fatalities

Cambridgeshire County Council has been fined £6m for health and safety breaches which resulted in three fatalities on its guided busway.

Highways Magazine - Cambridgeshire hit with £6m fine after guided busway deaths

Cambridgeshire County Council has been fined £6m following three deaths on its guided busway.

County fined £6m over guided busway deaths and injuries

Cambridgeshire CC has been fined £6m after pleading guilty to serious safety failings on its guided busway leading to three deaths and multiple injuries in the last decade. The prosecution followed a long and complex Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation, where incidents continued to…The post County fined £6m over guided busway deaths and injuries appeared first on Local Government Chronicle (LGC).

Council fined £6 million after three people died on guided busway

The three people died in separate incidents across 11 years