A 19-YEAR-old sportsman was killed and his young female passenger was left fighting for her life in a horror collision with a single-decker bus on the notorious Cat and Fiddle road last Friday afternoon.
Macclesfield Town Football Club fan and sporting all-rounder Bradley Kevin Peel - who was enjoying a gap year prior to going to university - lost his battle for life 20 minutes after being raced to Macclesfield Hospital with serious head injuries.
Both Bradley and his 17-year-old front seat passenger - whose condition was last night said to be "serious" but "stable" - had to be cut out of the wreckage by firefighters. Police cordoned off part of the A537 for more than five hours, and this week appealed for witnesses. They particularly want to speak to one motorist who stopped to help, but left before giving details.
Bradley was driving his blue Citroen Saxo into Macclesfield when he was in collision with a single-decker bus on the Bull Hill bend at 3.52pm last Friday (January 26) and ricocheted off the roadside metal barriers.
The driver of the Bowers bus and five of his seven passengers escaped unhurt. Two had to be treated on the scene by paramedics.
A Macclesfield firefighter said: "The bus suffered relatively little damage, but the car had impacted very hard into the side of the metal barrier."
