HSE | Cambridgeshire County Council has been fined £6 million after serious safety failings on its Guided Busway led to three deaths and multiple injuries over ten years.
From 2011, three pedestrians died after being struck by buses in unlit or inadequately separated areas of the busway: Jennifer Taylor (2015), Steve Moir (2018), and Kathleen Pitts (2021), plus serious injuries to cyclists. The council delayed its first risk assessment until August 2016 and failed to install basic safety measures such as lighting, speed limits, barriers or warning signs.
HSE principal inspector Graham Tompkins said proper risk management and simple safety measures would have prevented these tragedies. Cambridgeshire County Council pleaded guilty to breaching Section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and was fined £6 million plus costs.
