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08-01-2010, 07:54 AM
Drunken school bus driver who sliced roof off double-decker on bridge faces jail
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Last updated at 11:39 AM on 1st August 2010
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A drunken school bus driver who sliced the roof off his double-decker shortly after dropping off children is facing jail.
Gurdeep Singh Sagoo, 49, of Middlesex, was almost three times over the drink-drive limit when he drove into a low bridge.
He had been on an all-night bender with friends 15 hours earlier and had just dropped 46 pupils home from Chalfonts Community College in Bucks.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/08/01/article-1299346-0A93A062000005DC-384_468x325.jpg Drunk: Gurdeep Singh Sagoo drove the double decker school bus into the underside of a rail bridge in Buckinghamshire
His bus was 15ft tall but Sagoo ignored signs warning the upcoming bridge was under 13ft.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/08/01/article-1299346-0A939AEB000005DC-886_233x423.jpg Ignored signs: Bus driver Gurdeep Singh Sagoo
Shards of metal and glass were sent flying and the roof of the green bus was ripped off.
After he was arrested, Sagoo told police he had forgotten he was driving a two-tier bus and thought it was a single decker.
He was found to have 97mg of alcohol in his system when he was breathalysed - nearly three times the legal limit.
No one was hurt in the incident on May 12 and no children were on board at the time.
Sagoo, who had been working as a bus driver for five years, admitted dangerous driving and drink-driving at east Berkshire magistrates' court.
He was banned from driving until sentencing at Reading Crown Court, on a date yet to set, and released on unconditional bail.
In court, he was described as a 'well regarded' employee and his solicitor claimed he had made a 'serious error of judgment'.
Magistrate Judy Tomlin said: 'You had been drinking, you had been driving children and at 4pm in the afternoon you had a high alcohol reading. You would have been much higher earlier on in the day.'
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Last updated at 11:39 AM on 1st August 2010
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A drunken school bus driver who sliced the roof off his double-decker shortly after dropping off children is facing jail.
Gurdeep Singh Sagoo, 49, of Middlesex, was almost three times over the drink-drive limit when he drove into a low bridge.
He had been on an all-night bender with friends 15 hours earlier and had just dropped 46 pupils home from Chalfonts Community College in Bucks.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/08/01/article-1299346-0A93A062000005DC-384_468x325.jpg Drunk: Gurdeep Singh Sagoo drove the double decker school bus into the underside of a rail bridge in Buckinghamshire
His bus was 15ft tall but Sagoo ignored signs warning the upcoming bridge was under 13ft.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/08/01/article-1299346-0A939AEB000005DC-886_233x423.jpg Ignored signs: Bus driver Gurdeep Singh Sagoo
Shards of metal and glass were sent flying and the roof of the green bus was ripped off.
After he was arrested, Sagoo told police he had forgotten he was driving a two-tier bus and thought it was a single decker.
He was found to have 97mg of alcohol in his system when he was breathalysed - nearly three times the legal limit.
No one was hurt in the incident on May 12 and no children were on board at the time.
Sagoo, who had been working as a bus driver for five years, admitted dangerous driving and drink-driving at east Berkshire magistrates' court.
He was banned from driving until sentencing at Reading Crown Court, on a date yet to set, and released on unconditional bail.
In court, he was described as a 'well regarded' employee and his solicitor claimed he had made a 'serious error of judgment'.
Magistrate Judy Tomlin said: 'You had been drinking, you had been driving children and at 4pm in the afternoon you had a high alcohol reading. You would have been much higher earlier on in the day.'
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