Arriva suspends driver as crash investigation continues

Arriva refused to say yesterday whether it would compensate the 27 passengers injured in Wednesday’s accident that involved three of its buses. An Arriva spokesman said the cause of the accident was still unknown and the company was cooperating with the authorities. The company would be looking to identify any measures that can be put into place to reduce the risk of such accidents reoccurring. “Our primary consideration remains the condition of any person injured, among them our employees,” the spokesman said. An Arriva bus full of passengers skidded on the slippery, wet road at around 3pm on Wednesday and slammed into the side of the historic Portes Des Bombes in Floriana. Another two Arriva buses behind then crashed into each other, with one hitting the centre strip. Twenty-seven passengers and two drivers were injured, seven of them seriously, although none of the injuries was life-threatening. On Wednesday the company said there appeared to be diesel mixed with rainwater on the road at the spot where the accident took place. Questioned about this yesterday, the Arriva spokesman said none of the buses involved in the accident was leaking diesel. The spokesman also said that,...