Injured student tells of horror and confusion after 19 hurt as bus crashes into Hampshire river
A student moment told me that a double -storey bus fell into a river and seriously injured five people.
Several young people and drivers, Eastleight, Hampshire’daki after the road was stuck in the vehicle.
The bus was taking 19 students to Barton Peveril Sixth Form College when he left Bishopstoke Road, and on Thursday at 10:00 am, the river ended in Itchen.
A witness said the driver had mechanical failure and the brakes stopped working.
One of the so -called Freddie Sampson told about the moment of accident and later the panic that emerged.
Freddie Sampson said to the BBC, “We met a lamp pole and the whole windshield was shredded.”
“We couldn’t stop and we had to knit from traffic trying not to hit any car, and then the bus driver lost control – we flew to the river.
“Everything was a little manic. Nobody really knew what was going on.
In a video of the incident, a student can be heard on the bus: “Oh my God, we will die, we will actually die,” he screams and images end.
Kelly West, who lives nearby and running to the scene, said the driver’s brakes failed and the accelerator was stuck.
“I heard some noise, I looked out the window and came to look at the river,” he said.
Mrs. West said people were screaming and the driver fell into the trap.
He said: “I told him to stop panic, and he said that the brakes were unsuccessful and that the accelerator was stuck and tried to avoid cars.”
Hampshire Constabulary inspector Andy Tester, five people were taken to hospital for treatment, he said.
Two of them-driver and a passenger-ciddi, but have no life-threatening injuries, while less serious injured 14 people were treated at the scene, he said. A total of 19 people were injured.
“He had to be terrible, and my thoughts were too much with the kids who need to have a terrible experience and the driver on the bus,” he said.
Mr. Tester praised the courage of the passing road to release those who had fallen into the trap.
A student’s mother said that he panicked to hear the accident, but praised the driver’s actions.
Gabriela McINNES Perez Cabrera wrote on Facebook: “My son has just arrived from the university. One of his friends was subjected to a small injury and went to class after the accident.
“My son showed me a video shot by a student when he couldn’t stop the bus. They were very scared, the poor ones.
“I think the bus driver did his best and he pulled it to the river instead of going into a more populated area.”
Another mother said she heard the news that she felt tense and panicked.
Im I ran here as quickly as I could, but I couldn’t reach my daughter.
Police said that the removal of a bad damaged bus entering the water under the road level would be a complex operation.
Richard Tyldsley, General Manager of Bluestar Bluestar, said, uz We wish you a complete and fast recovery with everyone who includes our thoughts and the injured.
“Currently, we do not know the conditions behind this incident and we are conducting an investigation immediately. We also help the police while doing their own investigations.”
