View Full Version : Bus attacked on Brixton Hill??
ovaltina
23-11-2007, 10:14
Does anybody know what happened to the 133 on Brixton Hill last night? I was going past at about 6pm, about 200ft from the junction with Effra Road, and there was a bus with both the windows in the back door smashed, a back lights thing dangling off and a panel from the wheel hanging off. It looked like somebody had been at it with a baseball bat.
There were no passengers but the driver was giving a statement to the police and there was an ambulance parked next to the bus.
:confused:
http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=6766365&postcount=163
kyser_soze
23-11-2007, 11:34
It had been hit by the bus behind it pulling out while it was pulling in - the driver's corner on the bus behind it was also crunched in, and I assume that's why the ambulance was there...
Donna Ferentes
23-11-2007, 11:35
How did they manage that?
ovaltina
23-11-2007, 11:36
Ah, ok. Glad it wasn't a maniac with a baseball bat! :)
Must have been scary being on the bus though.
kyser_soze
23-11-2007, 11:40
How did they manage that?
This is difficult without a drawing...
The bus with the driver side damage would have been pulling out, the bus with the near side rear damage pulling in, and the two corners connected...you know what tossers bus drivers can be pulling out/in in front of each other...
Must have been scary being on the bus though
Only cos of the glass - would've happened at parking speeds (>10mph) so the actual impact would've felt like hitting a car in a car park...
How did they manage that?
Incredably easily I imagine, given the general standard of bus driving in London
OpalFruit
23-11-2007, 13:04
A bus was actually pulling in ?
Not just blocking two lanes?
:confused:
I got a 159 to Waterloo yesterday and the driver was a maniac. Driving at high speed, giving passengers a second to get off before shutting the doors, generally in a hurry to get to his destination. I was glad to get off the bus...! Wonder if it was the same guy.
Brixton Hatter
23-11-2007, 13:19
...the driver was a maniac. Driving at high speed, giving passengers a second to get off before shutting the doors, generally in a hurry to get to his destination...That's my kinda bus driver. No fucking about, just get there quick ;)
kyser_soze
23-11-2007, 13:20
That's my kinda bus driver. No fucking about, just get there quick ;)
Me too if I'm honest.
I was once on a 52 that got stopped for speeding as it bombed down Knightsbridge towards Hyde Park Corner :D
Donna Ferentes
23-11-2007, 14:01
So the guy pulling out didn't bother looking in his mirror?
kyser_soze
23-11-2007, 14:03
Possibly in his blind spot, possibly just being a fucking idiot...
Donna Ferentes
23-11-2007, 14:03
I got a 159 to Waterloo yesterday and the driver was a maniac. Driving at high speed, giving passengers a second to get off before shutting the doors, generally in a hurry to get to his destination. I was glad to get off the bus...! Wonder if it was the same guy.
Also see (http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=141148)
Well here is the actual account of what happened on the 133 , I was on it !!
Just pulling away from the stop before Olive Morris House on the Hill. Clearly not enough room for a car to get through, let alone a double decker bus. Anyway the 133 that I was on steamed through the ''GAP'' which then smashed in to the bus that was stationary at the stop. Clearly the driver of the 133's fault.
The glass from the exit door's smashed , which considering I was sitting right next to the door's gave an almighty crashing sound and glass being shattered in to the passengers of the bus. Thank god the bus ( Unlike most evenings at rush hour up the hill ) was actually pretty empty !! There was a woman with a buggy and its extremly fortunate that it was not facing the direction of the doors, as the glass did actually land all over the top of the buggy.
However unfortunately, there was one woman that was holding her eye. I called an Ambulance to the scene... ( Ever called an ambulance lately ... Its like a call centre ) The poor woman had glass in her eye and chest pains that were getting considerably worse as time ticked on. I stayed with her until the Ambulance arrived which actually took somewhere between 30 to 40 mins !! The police had arrived after about 15 min's and then proceeded to take a statement from the driver and myself... The driver saying it was not his fault !! Yeh right .... It was so clearly his fault. I also ended up speaking to the driver of the stationary bus.. She had only just pulled into the stop , and had not even opened the doors yet to let her passengers off.
This could have been a great deal worse than it was. I truly hope that the passenger that was injured will get through this ordeal as best as possible. She was a lovely woman who infact had just finished work and on her way home from St Thomas's.... Yet to end up being taken back there in an Ambulance.
I gave up on the journey home in the end.. and quickly redirected myself toward's The Albert to calm down.
kyser_soze
23-11-2007, 14:58
Ah so it was stationery...I only saw the aftermath and was doing some instant CSI based on the damage...
If not for being on the bus , I so would have been doing the CSI Brixton myself.. In fact I'm sure Sarah was on scene straight away.
Also see (http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=141148)
Once again, it's "Wild? I was livid."
That's my kinda bus driver. No fucking about, just get there quick ;)
I have to say, I was in a hurry and glad he was too. It meant I got to spend more time with my little boy at the adventure playground in Waterloo. But even so, it was a bit touch and go at some points...!
Well here is the actual account of what happened on the 133 , I was on it !!
Just pulling away from the stop before Olive Morris House on the Hill. Clearly not enough room for a car to get through, let alone a double decker bus. Anyway the 133 that I was on steamed through the ''GAP'' which then smashed in to the bus that was stationary at the stop. Clearly the driver of the 133's fault.
The glass from the exit door's smashed , which considering I was sitting right next to the door's gave an almighty crashing sound and glass being shattered in to the passengers of the bus. Thank god the bus ( Unlike most evenings at rush hour up the hill ) was actually pretty empty !! There was a woman with a buggy and its extremly fortunate that it was not facing the direction of the doors, as the glass did actually land all over the top of the buggy.
However unfortunately, there was one woman that was holding her eye. I called an Ambulance to the scene... ( Ever called an ambulance lately ... Its like a call centre ) The poor woman had glass in her eye and chest pains that were getting considerably worse as time ticked on. I stayed with her until the Ambulance arrived which actually took somewhere between 30 to 40 mins !! The police had arrived after about 15 min's and then proceeded to take a statement from the driver and myself... The driver saying it was not his fault !! Yeh right .... It was so clearly his fault. I also ended up speaking to the driver of the stationary bus.. She had only just pulled into the stop , and had not even opened the doors yet to let her passengers off.
This could have been a great deal worse than it was. I truly hope that the passenger that was injured will get through this ordeal as best as possible. She was a lovely woman who infact had just finished work and on her way home from St Thomas's.... Yet to end up being taken back there in an Ambulance.
I gave up on the journey home in the end.. and quickly redirected myself toward's The Albert to calm down.
What a nightmare. Good on you for staying with the injured woman.
god damn hippies and your bicycling. I work for TFL (Transport For London) and do you know how much we have to skew our traffic models for cycle channels? I'm totally for bikes but cyclists/second down a road compared to road traffic is a joke yet you basically take up half the capacity. Buses are bad, but cyclists..... Wooooooo
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