Company directors jailed after fatal bus crash

Two bus company directors involved in a plot to fake details of driver's hours have today, Friday 4 July 2008, been sentenced. Their offending came to light after a road traffic collision in which a 27-year-old man died after his cherry-picker crane was in collision with a double-decker bus. Martin Pilling of East Moor Road, Worsley, died when he was knocked from the basket of the crane into the path of the bus, following the collision on Wilmslow Road, Rusholme on Wednesday 1 November 2006. The directors of UK North and GM Buses Enterprises Ltd, Vincenzo Casale, aged 44, of Meadowfield Close, Glossop, and David Michael Ellis, 37, of Southfield Close, Dukinfield, both pleaded guilty at Manchester Crown Court to conspiring to create false documents. They were each sentenced today 15 months in prison. Casale has also been... [read full story]