A bus company has sacked a driver who nearly hit a little girl crossing a road in Newport earlier this month. Newport Transport has taken action against the driver who was captured on CCTV narrowly missing the girl on Somerton Road in Newport on October 13.
The shocking footage showed Courtney Flynn, now seven, and her mum Tracy walking across the pedestrian crossing near a primary school while the green man was on. Courtney was seen running across the road and the bus can be seen driving through the crossing, narrowly missing her. However, after initially hitting the brakes to avoid a collision, the driver then appears to continue on without stopping.
Mum Tracy later said that "one second sooner" and her daughter would have been run over. She said the incident had left her shocked as it happened just days before her daughter's seventh birthday. "Every time I think how close she came to not seeing her birthday I feel sick inside," the 32-year-old said at the time.
