Coach smashed into house, bottom of Muswell Hill

Did anyone catch it at all? They've just finished extricating the thing now. It smashed half the front off the house next to my friends place! Apparently the driver made it almost to the top, the engine cut due to (the drivers reason at least) all the fuel being in the back of the tank because of the incline. So he gets an escort down the hill in reverse from the police. About a third of the way from the bottom the brakes go, including the handbrake, the bus smashes a BMW's front end off, the police car too and the veers leftwards into the house. Crazy shit.

The front wall of two floors worth of part of the front of the house are just gone. It looks really weird because everything inside looks the same, like a dolls house or something.

The cops said the someone was in at the time but they're ok.

Fuck me.

http://www.hornseyjournal.co.uk/content/haringey/hornseyjournal/news/story.aspx?brand=HCEJOnline&category=news&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newshcej&itemid=WeED26%20Jun%202008%2017%3A02%3A52%3A560

Mary Bamford, who lives next door, said: "I was just in my house when I heard a very loud bang. Cars have crashed into my wall so many times - about four times in the last five years - but I've never seen something like this."

I think I'd move.

Dominic Lavelle, 30, a business analyst, of Bruce Grove, arrived two minutes after the incident. He said: "I would grade it eight out of 10 for seriousness. The back of the coach is inside the house, so it's pretty severe.

He just can't turn off that analysing can he.

Lol

quality journalism:
"They said the driver couldn't stop."