The day a London bus jumped Tower Bridge to avoid disaster
London buses safely crossing the bridge (Picture: Getty)
Of all the trivia about London’s iconic public transport, one example sounds a little too extroardinary to be true.
A few days after Christmas 1952, a London bus jumped the gap between the two halves of Tower Bridge’s road section after it started to open.
If something similar happened today, it might sound like a publicity stunt.
But for driver Albert Gunter it was more or less a matter of life or death.
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