52529 returns from the dead.

Sorry I have not posted for a while.

It was reported last week by me that one on the three Mercedes Varios of the First Devon and Cornwall Torpoint fleet 52529 (S529 RWP) was written off in an accident. It was found out that the crash happened with a car on a single track lane on a blind bend in between the villages of Widegates and Horningtops near Liskeard. It was reported that speed and the narrowness of the road were factors which left no time for the bus or car to avoid the accident and no space for either of the vehicles to dive out of the way. After the accident 52529 limped in tatters to Laira depot where it was thought that she would be scrapped But no. First Devon and Cornwall took the decision to renew the front of the bus, change the old wind blind for an LCD blind and give her a complete repaint. Very unusual for a big bus company but none the less very noble. Let’s just hope this does not happen again on new route 181.