TRANSPORT unions have called for “lessons to be learned” after a bus company was fined £380,000 following an incident which saw one of its employees crushed by a bus.

David Heathfield suffered “life-changing injuries and six fractures in his lower arm” when he was trapped between a reversing bus and a stationary vehicle at Stagecoach Devon’s Torquay depot on October 3 2019.

At Plymouth magistrates’ court on Tuesday, the company pleaded guilty to breaching section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and was ordered to pay costs of £18,000 on top of the hefty fine.