A residential street was packed with dense smoke after a Stagecoach bus developed an engine fault in what the firm branded a "technical issue".
The double-decker, understood to be a 33 service, was travelling through Cowdenbeath when it malfunctioned shortly before 3.30pm on Wednesday. A video posted on social media by Fife Jammer Locations showed thick smoke billowing from the rear of the vehicle on Moss Side Road, at its junction with Smith Avenue, as locals looked on.
No injuries were reported during the incident. A number of people speculated that the diesel engine on board the bus had "run away" – a rare occurrence in diesel engines in which extra fuel is unwittingly fed into the engine while it is running, causing it to run above its normal operating limit.
