{"id":113703,"date":"2025-09-04T10:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T10:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/113703\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T10:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T10:09:07","slug":"several-people-taken-to-hospital-after-london-bus-crash-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/113703\/","title":{"rendered":"Several people taken to hospital after London bus crash | London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A number of pedestrians have been taken to hospital after a bus mounted a pavement near Victoria station in central <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\/london\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">London<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Several people, including the driver of the route 24 bus, are understood to have been injured in the crash on Victoria Street on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">There are no reported fatalities, the Metropolitan police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">No arrests have been made and an investigation has been launched, the force added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Pictures from the scene show a number of emergency vehicles including police cars, ambulances and a fire engine. The road remains closed with all vehicles being diverted from the area, the Met said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Emit Suker, 47, told PA news agency: \u201cIt [the bus] was coming from Westminster \u2013 it was going really fast and came off the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThere were about 15, 16 people inside the bus. People were screaming \u2013 it was terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Another witness told PA news agency: \u201cI heard a massive crash \u2013 came outside and there was a woman on the floor with loads of people around her. Lots of people from the gym had run out to help her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A trail of diesel running down Allington Street has forced police to ban smoking in the area over fears of an incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A London ambulance service spokesperson said: \u201cWe were called at 8.20am today to reports of a road traffic collision on Victoria Street, Westminster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cWe have sent resources to the scene, including ambulance crews, advanced paramedics, a paramedic in a fast response car, a clinical team manager, an incident response officer and a command support vehicle. We\u2019ve also dispatched London\u2019s air ambulance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThe incident is ongoing and we are working with our emergency services partners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Rosie Trew, TfL\u2019s head of bus service delivery, said: \u201cOur thoughts are with the people who have been injured following a bus incident at Victoria Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cWe are working with the police and the operator, Transport UK, to urgently investigate this incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThis must have been a distressing incident for everyone involved and we have support available for anyone affected.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A number of pedestrians have been taken to hospital after a bus mounted a pavement near Victoria station&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-113703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}