Victims of UK’s worst-ever road accident remembered 50 years on

The remains of the almost flattened coach, in which 32 passengers died, after it crashed through the parapet of Dibbles Bridge, Hebden, Yorkshire. The coach was carrying a sightseeing group from Teeside. - (PA Archive)

The 33 people who died following a coach crash in the Yorkshire Dales have been remembered on the 50th anniversary of what is often cited as the UK’s worst-ever road accident.

Those who died, and another 13 who were injured, were enjoying a pensioners’ day trip from Thornaby, near Middlesbrough, on a bus which left the road at Dibble’s Bridge, near Hebden, North Yorkshire, plunging 20ft and landing on its roof.