Bus crash, Wandsworth.

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IhateChristmas

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Sunday 8th January 2012
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The ex has just texted me a picture of a double decker bus that has crashed into Sainsburys. If you know the area it looks like it was headed south on Garrett Lane and left the road, crossed the pavement and hit the main entrance.

Worryingly the path it has taken would have been through all the outside seating by Starbucks.

Nothing on the net so far so hoping that nobody was hurt but how in hell it managed it as there is no way a bus could go fast down there.



Edited by IhateChristmas on Sunday 8th January 12:41

turbobloke

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Sunday 8th January 2012
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A BBC web page from 6 minutes ago apparently:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-164602...

Shaw Tarse

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Pints

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Sunday 8th January 2012
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That's good news that nobody was hurt.

IhateChristmas

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Sunday 8th January 2012
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Pretty lucky as that area is normally packed with people shopping, drinking coffee and waiting to cross the road.


Eric Mc

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Sunday 8th January 2012
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Looks like it might have been driven by one of the Seven Dwarves.

nelly1

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Sunday 8th January 2012
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Eric Mc said:
Looks like it might have been driven by one of the Seven Dwarves.
Strikey?

Digger

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Sunday 8th January 2012
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Nescafe v Starbucks - Round 1

Just txted my ex who lives down Garratt Lane and addicted to Starbucks!

carmonk

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Sunday 8th January 2012
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nelly1 said:
Eric Mc said:
Looks like it might have been driven by one of the Seven Dwarves.
Strikey?
No, but the driver was fking Lucky.

Eric Mc

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Sunday 8th January 2012
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carmonk said:
nelly1 said:
Eric Mc said:
Looks like it might have been driven by one of the Seven Dwarves.
Strikey?
No, but the driver was fking Lucky.
Dopey more like smile

IhateChristmas

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Sunday 8th January 2012
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Digger said:
Nescafe v Starbucks - Round 1

Just txted my ex who lives down Garratt Lane and addicted to Starbucks!
Well spotted sir laugh

jagracer

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Sunday 8th January 2012
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He must have been toeing it to hit a road sweeper first and then Sainsburys

IhateChristmas

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Sunday 8th January 2012
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Puzzling as it would have been going pretty slowly what with the crossing and it's right turn for the end stop is just yards up the road.

jagracer

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Sunday 8th January 2012
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IhateChristmas said:
Puzzling as it would have been going pretty slowly what with the crossing and it's right turn for the end stop is just yards up the road.
It's often quite strange how these things happen. A few years ago near me a bus turned left at a set of lights, quite a slow tight turn, and as he straightened up something happened and he accelerated to the opposite side of the road, through a set of railings over quite a wide pavement and through a shop front injuring quite a few people in the process.

Digger

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Sunday 8th January 2012
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Digger said:
Nescafe v Starbucks - Round 1

Just txted my ex who lives down Garratt Lane and addicted to Starbucks!
Unfortunately she's ok. She mentioned that smokers get what they deserve and that the buses in the other direction must be safer if Nero was saved.

IhateChristmas

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Digger said:
Unfortunately she's ok. She mentioned that smokers get what they deserve and that the buses in the other direction must be safer if Nero was saved.
laugh

dandarez

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Sunday 8th January 2012
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Eric Mc said:
carmonk said:
nelly1 said:
Eric Mc said:
Looks like it might have been driven by one of the Seven Dwarves.
Strikey?
No, but the driver was fking Lucky.
Dopey more like smile
Possibly, probably had a bad day, he had been a bit Grumpy and Sneezy.
He was Happy he wasn't hurt, but felt a bit Bashful afterwards.
Doc who examined him said he reckoned he was Sleepy and that caused it.

wink


Eric Mc

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Sunday 8th January 2012
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Was there a dwarf called "Passed Out"?

smegmore

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Monday 9th January 2012
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Wandsworth? scratchchin

No 'promising footballers' involved then?

paperbag

williamp

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Monday 9th January 2012
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IhateChristmas said:


Edited by IhateChristmas on Sunday 8th January 12:41
No wonder it was going so quickly: its the Abarth version...



Mind you, if they are like our bus drivers, they speed up when they see a pedestrian crossing, small children, the elderly etc