If this was a rail or air accident with a machine written off then there would be a full independent report. SFAIK there's nothing similar for road based public transport. Obviously the bus company will investigate and one hopes the industry has means to share information.
In most cases I guess it's either a change of vehicle or a diversion followed by inattention, some sort of habit?. 'Looked but did not see' is a regular for rail accidents. Another is 'ding ding and away' where the driver responds to the conductors signal for doors closed etc without checking the signals.
There are any number of hot spots on the rail network for bridge strikes. One is at Kings Langley, just north of Watford Junction on the line out of Euston. I lost count of the number of times I was delayed on my commute by that one.
ISTR the late Pat of this parish wrote of some reasons why it happened with LGVs.
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