| Bus crashes into shop in east London - 6 November 2025 Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 19:28, 6th November 2025 |     |
From the BBC:
No-one was on the bus at the time of the crash, TfL said
A bus has crashed into a shop close to a train station in east London.
Emergency services were called to Station Road near Manor Park Station at about 09:00 GMT where they found the double decker bus crashed into a shop.
Transport for London (TfL) said no passengers were on the bus at the time of the crash. No life-threatening or life changing injuries were reported however one person, who was in the shop at the time, was taken to hospital for treatment.
An investigation has been launched into the circumstances, the Met Police confirmed.
Ninoshan Jeyaseelan, who owns the shop the bus crashed into, described the incident as "just insane". He told BBC London: "We just had a big bang sort of thing and the person who was driving (the bus), she was under shock herself."
Mr Jeyaseelan said his shop had minor damage. "I don't know how long it's gonna take to recover from it." He added: "No one's majorly injured you know - thank God."
A TfL spokesperson said: "We're very sorry for the damage and disruption caused when a route 474 bus collided with a shop building on Station Road. Thankfully, there were no passengers onboard the bus, however a customer in the shop at the time has sustained a minor injury and the bus driver was taken to hospital as a precautionary measure. We have support available for anyone affected by this incident. We are supporting Go-Ahead, the operator, as they investigate what happened."
| Re: Bus crashes into shop in east London - 6 November 2025 Posted by Marlburian at 20:51, 6th November 2025 | |
Just a semi-flippant reply to note a strange coincidence. I'm bingeing on the 2,388 episodes or so of "The Bill", the police drama series that ran on ITV from 1984 to 2010 and have got to 1994. It's meant to be based in East London, though a lot of filming was done elsewhere. Last night I was watching an episode in which a sign for Manor Park tube station briefly appeared and I wondered if it was real - or fictionalised, as most of the locations are. The article above confirms that it is "actual".
Some scenes were filmed in the old docklands, with lots of ruined warehouses and a few cranes still evident.
