Moment bus ploughs into group of individuals ready at cease earlier than hero onlookers rush to ‘free trapped lady’: One rushed to hospital with severe accidents
This is the terrifying moment a bus swerved off the road and into a crowd of pedestrians waiting at a stop, leaving one woman trapped under the vehicle.
Distressing footage of the incident reveals a mother and child fleeing from the scene following the collision in Lightmoor Way, Telford, just before 10.30am on Thursday morning.
The rest of the crowd, now joined by other bystanders, gather around the injured woman and attempt to lift the bus, which also collided with garden railings behind the stop, off her.
Eventually they succeed and the blue single decker bus reverses away from the pavement.
Police, fire and ambulance services attended the scene and the woman was given ‘advanced trauma care’ for ‘potentially serious injuries’.
She was taken to The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital for further treatment.
A West Mercia Police statement said: ‘We received a call around 10.30am this morning (December 12) with a report of a road traffic collision on Lightmoor Way, Telford.
‘Officers arrived to find a bus had collided with a pedestrian. The pedestrian was taken to The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.
Footage shows the seconds just before a bus swerved off the road and into a crowd of pedestrians waiting at a bus stop, leaving one woman trapped under the vehicle
Distressing footage of the incident – which MailOnline has chosen not to show – reveals the collision in Lightmoor Way, Telford, just before 10.30am on Thursday morning
A crowd of bystanders managed to lift the bus off the injured woman, before the vehicle reversed back onto the road
‘The circumstances are yet to be established and enquiries are ongoing.’
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: ‘Upon arrival crews found a woman who was the pedestrian.
‘She was assessed by ambulance staff and had sustained potentially serious injuries. She received advanced trauma care from ambulance staff at the scene.
‘She was conveyed to Royal Shrewsbury Hospital under emergency blue light conditions with medics travelling on board for continued treatment en route.
‘No persons from the bus required treatment.’
A spokesperson for Arriva, which operates the bus service involved, told MailOnline: ‘We’ll be investigating what’s happened.’
