Bristol woman thrown under bus in crash
A woman was thrown under a parked bus after being hit by a car on a main road in Bristol.
The woman, who is believed to live locally and be aged 42, was hit by a car travelling along the A420 Clouds Hill Road in St George towards Kingswood shortly before 2pm yesterday.
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She was treated for a facial injury and suspected concussion and transferred to Frenchay Hospital for further assessment.
Rinku Gupta, 31, whose family own the Maid Marion off-licence outside which the incident happened, did not see the collision but said he had viewed it on footage recorded by CCTV cameras mounted outside the shop.
Mr Gupta said the woman was a regular he knew as Karen.
He said: "A bus was parked, facing away from the city centre, on the other side of the road. Karen was crossing behind the bus but as she crossed she was hit by a car going in the same direction.
"She was then thrown underneath the bus, and landed between its back wheels. It was quite a scary situation."
Great Western Ambulance Service paramedic Chris Hewett said: "The first ambulance practitioner to arrive described the initial scene as chaotic.
"All she could see was the legs of the patient sticking out from under the bus, surrounded by a crowd of bystanders, some of whom were screaming.
"Our ambulance team used an orthopaedic scoop stretcher to slide the patient out from under the bus."
The road was closed for 45 minutes after the incident.
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by Fireman, Bristol
Thursday, June 18 2009, 9:17PM
“Primark? I'll stick to part-time plumbing thanks. Rollers don't run themselves you know.
By the way, give me your addresses and I'll send you all a second class stamp each so you can write your knowledge of the service on the back of them. Or will one do between the lot of you?”
by Ray, Bristol
Thursday, June 18 2009, 7:14PM
“Fireman,Primark are taking on part time staff as well,should suit you and your mates.”
by Michael Northwick, Bath
Thursday, June 18 2009, 7:11PM
“Certainly not,iI do not qualify at 61 years of age.”
by Fireman, Bristol
Thursday, June 18 2009, 6:35PM
“Oh dear, fail the Ability Range Tests did we, you two?
Never mind, I hear Primark are recruiting.”
by Michael Northwick, Bath
Thursday, June 18 2009, 6:26PM
“Wholetime Firefighter, you are so good I feel humble reading your post's.”
by Brenda, Bristol
Thursday, June 18 2009, 6:10PM
“Wholetime Firefighter,it might be because its not often we see you doing your job,normally its all we see is you washing your cars at the back of the Fire Station.”
by Kirsty, Hartcliffe
Thursday, June 18 2009, 4:48PM
“erm who eva spk 2 me in german, spek englis or r u dumb”
by Wholetime Firefighter, Bristol
Thursday, June 18 2009, 4:23PM
“Sorry Jason, when people are looking through binoculars at a coach crash, and are holding their kids up to see a body we are recovering from the docks, you become very sceptical.
Watch the (edited) documentories by all means, but show some decorum when you are passing the scene of an accident.”
by Jason, Bristol
Thursday, June 18 2009, 3:59PM
“Wholetime Firefighter.Did it ever cross your mind that the reason people stop and look,is not to see corpses,but to watch how you, and your fellow Firefighters go about handling such situations,it is knowledge gained in doing so, which is why we hold members of our emergency services in such high esteem, were we not interested TV companys would not make the fly on the wall documentries.”
by Wholetime Firefighter, Bristol
Thursday, June 18 2009, 3:38PM
“Because people are ghouls, Adrian. There have been times when we have had to cover a scene with vehicles and salvage sheets when we have removed bodies, from accidents and fires, just to stop the 'Gentlemen' of the press, and the voyeuristic public getting a look at the corpses. The idiots treat it as a day out if it is a large job. The M4 coach crash was one where, in the brigade video I have seen, there were people with binoculars on motorway bridges! Unbelievable, but very sadly true.
These people are beneath contempt.”