Wednesday 25 August 2010

Bus collision news

A PENSIONER has been taken to hospital with life-threatening head injuries after he was hit by a double decker bus.

The man, 76, is believed to have been using the pedestrian crossing outside Homebase, in Church Hill, Loughton, around 7.55 this morning when he was hit by a number 20 bus.

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A DOUBLE decker bus crashed into railings in Piccadilly Circus today, injuring a woman.

The number nine bus veered off the road on the Leicester Square side of the junction, near the station, around 2.20pm.

TfL is investigating why the driver did not then stop until the bus reached nearby Haymarket.