Drivers risk death by bomb and beer
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LIKE THE late Lt-Col H. Jones, who died so gallantly in the Falklands, Werner Heubeck, head of Ulsterbus, leads from the front. Not for the first time hi recently risked his life by driving away a hijacked bus that might have contained a bomb.
The driver had been forced by three armed, masked men to park the bus under a railway bridge near the border with the Irish Republic on the NewryDundalk road.
Another driver was rewarded by a gift of £50 spontaneously collected by people in admiration of his courage when the brakes of his artic, carrying 20 tons of beer, failed on a hill in Aberystwyth. Stephen O'Brien, of Huyton, Liverpool, hung on tc the steering wheel as the curtain-sided lorry careered for mile, shedding its load in all directions and hitting other vehicles before coming to rest in the main shopping street. Two people were hurt but neither seriously.
'THE RELUCTANCE of the computerised route and destination signs on New York'i latest buses to form themselves into correct sequences defeated the technicians but not the drivers. Once again brute force, sheer ignorance and a heavy hand have triumphed over science.