Government is disputing claims a bus windscreen was cracked in an accident after services resumed earlier than planned on Tuesday.

Drivers downed tools on Tuesday morning, claiming conditions were unsafe as one bus hit an overhanging tree near Belmont Hills and several others experienced near-misses.

They were angry at being sent back to work at 6 a.m. — six hours earlier than planned — in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Igor.

Operators at the Public Transportation Board depot in Devonshire showed The Royal Gazette a bus with a cracked windscreen they said happened at Belmont Hills that day.

However, a Department of Public Transportation spokeswoman yesterday said it had received no report of an accident — and that some buses were already in the yard awaiting repairs for cracked windscreens from previous incidents.

"With reference to the news piece that references a windscreen cracked by an overhanging tree on Middle Road near Belmont, no such report was received by the Department of Public Transportation," said the spokeswoman.

"Thus any indication by the media that there was a smashed window due to hitting an overhanging branch is erroneous."

Premier and Transport Minister Ewart Brown had responded angrily to Tuesday's stoppage, dubbing operators "amazingly insensitive" and "very unBermudian" for refusing to run on routes he said were safe.

It's understood all buses were running as usual from yesterday morning.