On 27 May 1975, a coach carrying elderly passengers crashed at the bottom of a steep hill at Dibble's Bridge, near Hebden in North Yorkshire, England.

While driving on a downhill stretch of the B6265 road between Greenhow and Hebden, stand-in coach driver Roger Marriott, a British Steel Corporation security officer, missed a gear.

[2][3] The son-in-law of the cottage owners, London barrister (now painter and sculptor) Lincoln Seligman, was having a barbecue with his partner in the garden at the time and was first on the scene.

[4] Steven Griffin, Steve Jennison and Carl Dickinson, teenagers from Hull who were camping nearby, heard the crash and came to assist.

[6] The proprietor of the coach company, Norman Riley, was later fined £75 (equivalent to £795 in 2023[7]) for running a motor vehicle with defective brakes.

The Dibble's Bridge crash brought the issue to a wider public; ultimately, legislation was passed requiring improved braking systems.