Church Road Motorcycles & Cars’ Peter de la Haye with a Ford Ranger which was badly damaged when hit by a bus driven by Carlos Da Silva. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 0551243)

A BUS driver who caused thousands of pounds-worth of damage to vehicles in Church Road has not been banned from driving.

Carlos Da Silva, who works for Island Coachways, was fined £200 after pleading guilty to driving without due care and attention when he appeared in the Magistrate’s Court.

Sergeant Geoff Greening said Mr Da Silva was manoeuvring his bus through a narrow gap in the road in heavy rain on 15 March when it clipped the wheel of a car. He lost control and the bus careered into several cars and two motorbikes parked in Church Road Motorcycles & Cars.

‘This was a simple error of judgement,’ assistant-Magistrate Philip Robey told him. ‘I’m not going to impose a driving ban, but it will appear on your record.’