42 min
The Devil’s Bridge - the site of Britain’s worst road accident. Twice. Everyone Dies In Sunderland: A podcast about growing up terrified in the eighties and nineties
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Something particularly alarming about growing up in the eighties and nineties was how ambivalent everyone was about basic road safety – even though horrific accidents happened with terrifying regularity. In June 1925, the brakes failed on a coach as it made its way down a steep hill at Dibbles Bridge, in North Yorkshire. Seven people would die in what was at the time the worst road accident in British history. Fifty years later, thirty three people would die at Dibble’s Bridge in id...
Something particularly alarming about growing up in the eighties and nineties was how ambivalent everyone was about basic road safety – even though horrific accidents happened with terrifying regularity. In June 1925, the brakes failed on a coach as it made its way down a steep hill at Dibbles Bridge, in North Yorkshire. Seven people would die in what was at the time the worst road accident in British history. Fifty years later, thirty three people would die at Dibble’s Bridge in id...
42 min