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Bus stuck in building after crash

A single-decker bus becomes embedded in the wall of a Territorial Army Centre after colliding with a car.

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Now look here, thank you for the news, but you have left me with a quandary here.

I am not sure if my sympathies are with the bus driver or the TA centre, the VW person, just another motorist. OOooooh that's nasty. Give yourself a smacked Ass Mr. Energumen

My curiosity is how they managed to travel "through a perimeter fence and collided with the outer wall of the nearby TA Centre." without serious injuries to passengers. Bus passengers are notoriously vulnerable as they rarely anticipate collisions. Maybe the ride was such that the passengers were "hanging on tight"?
Or perhaps "embedded in the wall" was an exaggeration?
I think we should be told . . .

The Manchester Evening News tells a slightly different story:-

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On the bus some 12 people, including the driver, were taken to hospital as well as a baby.

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None of those injured was seriously hurt.

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"I'm shocked at what's happened," said one 15-year-old passenger when he got off the bus.
Car mechanic Ian Watson, 46, from Old Trafford, who was not involved in the collision, said: "It's lucky no one has been killed or badly hurt. I can't believe how this has happened."
"I drive 10 times a day down this road and the maximum you can do round that corner is 10 miles an hour. That's not a 10-mile per hour crash. This fencing is reinforced for a start and the walls are double or triple skinned because it's an army barracks.

The official account:-

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A spokesman for Greater Manchester Police said: "A number of people on the bus received minor injuries as a result of the incident. The driver suffered minor cuts to the hand. A baby suffered some tiny cuts from shattered glass and a number of passengers suffered from whiplash.

(From:- http://www.manchestereveningnews.co....d_in_bus_crash )

Oh!, all right then, I have decided, I blame the Volkswagon Driver, who must have caused the innocent and totally sober bus driver to take avoiding action, during which he became unseated and slid to the floor, catching his right foot under the brake pedal and jamming it hard down on the accelerator.
Thus despite his heroic and proffesional reactions, he was unable to avoid a collision with the wall, as it was his only hope of bringing the bus to a halt, without running over a whole queue of people at a bus stop.

I'm not biased mind.

I did hear about a busdriver who had to pull out to avoid a pram . . .