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Old 25th Jun 2005, 22:28
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This happened at about 10:15/25. We were in the mid-term park, waiting for a bus when the first ambulance went by.

Our bus was delayed as the whole bus terminus was shut down and people were dropped off at the roundabout. Vehicles were backing up on the approach of course. Later, they would doubtless have organised something better but they responded very fast to an unusual and grim incident. By the time we were off loaded (about 10:35) and walking around the side of the bus and taxi area, the emergency services were in full swing.

The mess was significant and several ambulances and Paramedic vehicles. People on the ground were already bandaged and so on. The police arrived in some numbers with specialist equipment and vehicles. The Fire Brigade were not called (that I saw) as the bus had simply ploughed into the queue and no one was trapped in or under anything.

It was a stop in the middle of the three rows of bus stops - I have no idea which destination stop it was but NOT the ones for the on site car parks. The 'shelter' of perspex and aluminium was trashed and the people must have been very seriously damaged.

They set up a First Aid post just inside the terminal (on the right) and screened off the area for minor injuries. The were giving PA's for those that witnessed it.

I'm sure that the LTN dwellers will bring us more news of this when the weekly papers are published.
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