A Bristol bus operator who allowed someone else to run his vehicles in a dangerous condition while carrying schoolchildren has been banned from the industry indefinitely.
Kelvyn Haines admitted that he’d allowed Bill Phillips, the ‘controlling mind’ behind revoked operator Eastville Coaches Ltd, to use his operator’s licence for passenger transport.
During an inspection at St Bede’s School the DVSA issued immediate prohibitions to all three vehciles on the licence. They also found that no safety checks had been carried out for more than a year.
Traffic Commissioner Kevin Rooney said that in lending his licence to a revoked operator, Mr Haines “put the lives of children and others at risk”.
Full story in a forthcoming Court Report.
