{"id":432236,"date":"2026-02-18T12:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/432236\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T12:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:08:08","slug":"london-bus-crash-live-double-decker-smash-outside-southwark-playhouse-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/432236\/","title":{"rendered":"London bus crash LIVE: Double decker smash outside Southwark Playhouse | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The London Fire Brigade said they were called to reports of a collision in Elephant and Castle. They said two buses were involved in the collision, and part of a nearby building was &#8220;slightly damaged&#8221; in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the statement in full:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Firefighters were called to reports of a road traffic collision near the junction of Avonmouth Street and Newington Causeway, in Elephant and Castle. &#8220;Two buses were involved in the collision, and part of a nearby building was slightly damaged in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Crews worked to make the scene safe and supported colleagues from the London Ambulance Service as they treated patients.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Brigade was first called about the collision at 8.11am, and the incident was over for firefighters by 10am.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The London Fire Brigade said they were called to reports of a collision in Elephant and Castle. They&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3846,59,57,58,388,158059,50,288,158060,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-432236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-emergency-news","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-greatbritain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-london-bus-crash","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-police","16":"tag-southwark-playhouse","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432236","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=432236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}