Grove Vale (no longer) closed off to all traffic

[gebbjane]

There has been a crash on Grove Vale between a bus and lorry, the road is completely shut off.

[missse22]

Miraculously all casualties are still walking. X

[grajm]

Quite dramatic

[richard tudor]

Having many of the roads closed off will not help traffic go else where.

[Nigello]

Gosh, looks nasty - two big, heavy vehicles like that could do serious damage to life and buildings. Best wishes to all unlucky enough to have been involved.

[Peckhampam]

All open again now

[kford]

Looks like the bus caught itself the corner of the flatbed truck and pushed it into the house

[KidKruger]

Aah, I passed this damage coming back from ED stn late last night and figured there?d been a wreck of sone sort, makes sense now. Hope no-one hurt 🤞

[tedfudge]

The CCTV camera mounted on back of truck has been put on tik tok and shows exactly what happend. The bus came round the corner and drove straight into truck

[Dogkennelhillbilly]

richard tudor Wrote:

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> Having many of the roads closed off will not help

> traffic

https://assets.leevalley.com/Size4/10062/09A0681-leonardo-shoehorn-natural-u-01-r.jpg

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https://www.tiktok.com/@tc4hgv/video/7106999434898083077

[Dogkennelhillbilly]

Shit on a brick, that's a fair old whack

[NewWave]

Gosh! Thats a shocker and a blessing that there were no serious injuries (I assume) as the whole side of the bus is ripped apart!

[Bic Basher]

If there were passengers standing by the doors, I'm certain they'd be injuries, but luckily that bus wasn't packed.

[Huggers]

I'm not surprised. One of the bus drivers proper tears down Grove Vale.

[intexasatthe moment]

Was the lorry stationary and parked on the wrong side of the road ?

[Sue]

intexasatthe moment Wrote:

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> Was the lorry stationary and parked on the wrong

> side of the road ?

Looks like the bus was on the wrong side of the road?

[Nigello]

That video is shocking and yes, the bus appeared to be at least 70% over the median line. I?m surprised and glad there were no serious injuries.

[Ginster]

I live right by this and had to watch the video so many times and see the comments on it to realise the image is reversed as it's from the cab of the lorry looking behind. The bus was approaching from the traffic lights near Ondine Rd/Copleston Rd. The lorry parked opposite Gibbs and Dandy as they often are - that is why it hit the non-drive side and the doors side (as can be seen in the aftermath photos). You can also see the direction of travel was Gibbs and Dandy then Kwik Fit but my is it confusing! The bus therefore was actually (just) within the white lines on the correct side of the road but obviously should have actually been further over to clear the lorry.

Strangely when I heard what had happened I said I wonder if it clipped the truck (trucks often wait there til space free in Gibbs and Dandy). For me the worrying bit is the apparent speed as the Elsie Road bus stop was really close by just after lorry and you can see that in the clip with the firepeople. I heard someone went to hospital - I hope all are ok. Scary stuff and seems a miracle there was no one on the pavement.

[ianr]

I've made an unmirrored copy of the crash part of the video, 1.3MB, available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hWQ_tKomsZqYJV3bABjV0VLlHhcE5s38/view?usp=sharing

[Sue]

Thanks ianr

[Nigello]

Yes - I stand corrected. Thanks

[intexasatthe moment]

ianr thank you so much!

I just couldn't work it out.