Oxenhope charabanc disaster

30th October 1920. An outing to Keighley of 37 people from the Robin Hood Inn at Pecket Well ended in disaster when their charabanc overturned on a bend coming down from Cock Hill to Oxenhope. Five people were killed and four seriously injured. The vehicle was completely destroyed. The driver was cleared of blame. Apparently the driver did feel that something was wrong as he stopped at the Wagon and Horses at the top of Cock Hill and looked around the vehicle. He couldn’t see anything so he carried on, unfortunately the brakes must have failed on the steep descent. Roger Hellowell’s grandfather John Sager of Wadsworth, was a passenger on the Charabanc, he was the son of Sutcliffe Sager who was the Landlord of the Robin Hood Pecket Well in the late 1800s. He survived the disaster but died later when he was thrown from his horse travelling back over Cockhill moor from a Pidgon shoot at Cullingworth.