OOOOOOOOOOOPS:
I saw this unintentional open-top conversion in a bus garage in Bath.
..............Rear view.
I have to admit, it's a tidy piece of work and I hasten to add it's not my own.
This is one of mine.
The result of a coming-together with a mobile crane. Fortunately, a witness noticed that the crane driver had been looking at a map at the time he hit the bus.
Not very nice!
For some reason or another, along with the rest of the traffic on the M25 at the time, I was obliged to brake quite sharply. Unfortunately, the development vehicle I was driving did not have a panel behind the driver's seat and some of the contents of my overnight bag were thrown into the driving compartment. In particular, my road atlas - which became jammed between the accelerator pedal and the footbrake and, when the traffic had slowed to a walking pace, I leaned down to try to dislodge it. At the same time (rather inconveniently, I thought), the trafiic came to a complete stop and I ran into the back of the lorry directly in front of me..........
The 'other' vehicle.
As this photograph shows, the damage to the lorry was negligible. However, the consequences for the bus were significant and I was lucky to escape with little more than minor bruising to my shins and major bruising to my ego.
Close shave.
It's, perhaps, fortunate that plastic (rather than metal) is used nowadays because there really wasn't much room for my legs.