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@Oliver Schick
It's a strange crash on the face of it, as Earnshaw Street is one-way northbound (and St Giles High Street, from which the driver would have turned, is one-way westbound, so that there is only one direction he could have come from) and you'd expect a driver who lost control to crash into the building opposite rather than making a turn of more than 90 degrees.
The pillar he slammed into was one supporting a slight overhang outside the café, so technically that was part of the building, if not a full-on crash against the façade.
I find this interesting because vehicles (although I don't know about buses) seem to have become optimised to protect against a crash into a façade but not into trees or pillars, so either this crash wasn't very high-speed (it does look like bad damage to the bus) or the bus is constructed differently (which seems fairly obvious) and does actually protect against this type of crash quite well.