Tree killed in fatal bus crash
GLOUCESTERSHIRE – A tree has been fatally injured as a bus carrying 40 passengers, including 29 Royal Marines bound for their holidays in Afghanistan, slid on ice and tumbled down a steep bank, causing mortal damage to its trunk and root systems.
The tree, a 24 metre, 18 year-old Hornbeam was not killed instantly, but suffered insurmountable internal injuries. A tree surgeon later felled the tree with a chainsaw and fully destroyed it in a chipper machine. The tree will now be sold as bark chippings at a local garden centre to prevent weeds growing in pensioners’ flower beds.
Other Hornbeams watch in horror as one of their own is struck by a bus
“We’d see the tree on our way to the pub every evening,” said one upset local, “It’s too bad it was cut down in its prime. And for what? So more marines can go sun themselves abroad?”
There is a long list of environmental issues in Gloucestershire with its precious tree population, as the country has lost over 30 percent of its trees to logging, careless driving and wild goats butting and chewing the bark exoskeleton.
Local wildlife is also seriously affected as the Hornbeam provides a number of important functions like shelter, water, and in the case of rare birds, a stable and secure home in which to raise a family.
The Hornbeam’s next of kin has been informed.
Comments
By Snizzle my Dizzle on January 14th, 2010 at 8:22 am
And where has the thread for this gone?
By Admin on January 30th, 2010 at 8:38 am
^^^ We got attacked with spam, and all the comments had to go.
If i get time, i’ll readd them fromt he notifications.
Ed