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The crash was captured by on-board cameras on the bus which, according to Andre Rebello, the senior coroner for Liverpool and the Wirral, showed the driver collapsing at the wheel. At the same time, the bus veered to the left, leaving the carriageway and climbing an embankment before coming to rest on its side.
The M53 is an 18.9-mile-long (30.4 km) motorway in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside and the borough of Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire on the Wirral Peninsula in England. [1] It is also referred to as the Mid Wirral Motorway. [2] It runs between the Kingsway Tunnel, at Wallasey in the north, and the A55 at Chester. [1]
The Wirral Peninsula (/ ˈ w ɪr əl /), known locally as the Wirral, is a peninsula in North West England.The roughly rectangular peninsula is about 15 miles (24 km) long and 7 miles (11 km) wide, and is bounded by the Dee Estuary to the west, the Mersey Estuary to the east, and Liverpool Bay to the north.
The Metropolitan Borough of Wirral is a metropolitan borough of Merseyside, in North West England. It has a population of 322,453 (2022), [3] and encompasses 62 square miles (161 km 2) of the northern part of the Wirral Peninsula. Major settlements include Birkenhead, Wallasey, Bebington, Heswall, Hoylake and West Kirby.
The Wirral Show, a free-to-enter annual event, was held on open ground off the King's Parade at New Brighton. [39] In 2009 it was announced that after 33 years, The Wirral Show was to be axed. [40] A sailing school, which used the refurbished marine lake, closed in 2015. [41]
The route travels inland from Parkgate to Thornton Hough where it then travels along the centre of Wirral, northwards through Brimstage, Storeton, Landican, Woodchurch, Upton, Beechwood, Bidston and the outskirts of Leasowe where it meets the Irish Sea at the Gunsite.
The building accommodates a number of artistic, theatrical and sporting groups, including Wirral Sand Yacht Club. The sensory soft play resource provides a facility for local special needs groups and individuals. The centre also hosts a number of educational and local interest sessions.
By 1929 Crosville had consolidated an operating area covering the Wirral and parts of Lancashire, Cheshire and Flintshire. The Railways (Road Transport) Act, 1928 gave the four railway companies the opportunity to provide bus services. But rather than run in competition they bought into or purchased outright existing bus companies.