Eastleigh/Bishopstoke Bus Crash

[Colinjb]

Just seen that a bus full of Barton Pevrill College Students has just gone into the river in Bishopstoke. 

Fingers crossed that the kids on board are ok. If anyone on here is family to them, positive supportive thoughts to you all.

Edited 26 June, 2025 by Colinjb

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BBC said 3 high priority patients

[benjii]

Weird.

Hope everyone is OK.

[skintsaint]

Was going a fair rate of knots...with a learner driver involved.

 

https://www.facebook.com/trenchard1/videos/1023392789964493/

Edited 26 June, 2025 by skintsaint

[whelk]

19 minutes ago, skintsaint said:

Was going a fair rate of knots...with a learner driver involved.

 

https://www.facebook.com/trenchard1/videos/1023392789964493/

Learner must have absolutely shat themselves 

[Gloucester Saint]

Driver has said to witnesses that throttle stuck - rare but can happen (see Toyota).

[S-Clarke]

Looked shocking, it clearly out of control - so something was off, everyone seems to be saying jammed accelerator. If that is the case, the driver has done well to avoid hitting anything substantial.

That could have been so much worse, could have careered head on into other cars if it was at a busier time of day, into buildings or took out pedestrians. That girl on that video - if she was a few mins later to wherever she was off to, she'd have been walking on the stretch it drove over.

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37 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

Looked shocking, it clearly out of control - so something was off, everyone seems to be saying jammed accelerator. If that is the case, the driver has done well to avoid hitting anything substantial.

That could have been so much worse, could have careered head on into other cars if it was at a busier time of day, into buildings or took out pedestrians. That girl on that video - if she was a few mins later to wherever she was off to, she'd have been walking on the stretch it drove over.

Yep, he did bloody well to avoid the learner and dump the bus where he did. It could have been much worse than it was. 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

Beeb coverage of the incident, with details of what the driver had told people.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2k1gy4w38nt

[skintsaint]

Weren't we linked with this bloke from Koln?

 

[whelk]

2 hours ago, S-Clarke said:

Looked shocking, it clearly out of control - so something was off, everyone seems to be saying jammed accelerator. If that is the case, the driver has done well to avoid hitting anything substantial.

That could have been so much worse, could have careered head on into other cars if it was at a busier time of day, into buildings or took out pedestrians. That girl on that video - if she was a few mins later to wherever she was off to, she'd have been walking on the stretch it drove over.

Yeah looks like incredible job by the driver.  99 times out of a 100 that ends with fatalities