Dodge and Routemaster collide

Neither of these two drivers would have risen from their beds that morning, if they had realised what their day would bring.›On the 6th December 1974, the driver of a Walker Brothers Dodge tipper didn’t expect to be lying on his side, by the end of that morning. While negotiating the crossroads at the junction of Gateshead High Street, and Charles Street, the Northern General Transport Routemaster 2111, which was running up Gateshead High Street to Newcastle, on route 231, came to blows with the soil-carrying, Dodge tipper.›We have no idea what happened, but it caused quite a stir on