Paramedics treat casualties after London bus driver blacks out and crashes into a shop
A London double-decker bus ploughed into a shop on a busy street yesterday, trapping two people and injuring others after the driver blacked out.
Pictures on social media showed broken glass and paramedics tending to passengers on the upper deck of the bus.
Passenger Amy Mullineux, a nurse, said the driver told her he had lost consciousness.
“He said he blacked out before the bus hit the shop,” Ms Mullineux said. “He doesn’t remember hitting anything.”
Another passenger, Andrew Matthews, said there were about a dozen people on the bus when it began to drift off the road.
“As soon as the bus came to a stop there was yelling, screaming,” he said. “I noticed a lady wedged in the front right-hand side. She was screaming for help. There was a lot of blood.”
The trapped passengers were freed by firefighters and the bus driver was taken to hospital. London ambulance service paramedics treated 10 casualties, three of whom, including the bus driver, were taken to hospital.
Transit officials said the bus was heading for Waterloo station when it careened through the window of a kitchen shop in Lavender Hill in the Battersea area of south-west London, known for the 1951 British comedy film The Lavender Hill
Mob, starring Alec Guinness, Sid James and a young Audrey Hepburn.