Three killed after car crashes into bus and sparks huge inferno in west London
Three people have died after a bus and a car crashed outside a prison in west London.
The Mercedes hit a single-decker bus outside Feltham Young Offenders Institution just after midnight.
The H26 bus was heading towards Hatton Cross at the time of the incident that happened on the brow of a railway bridge.
A driver and two passengers in the car are understood to have died.
The bus driver was treated at the scene before being taken to hospital.
The charred shell of the bus remained at the scene today while the burned car was covered with a blue tarpaulin.
A prison worker told Metro: ‘There was a crash there just last week. Cars are always speeding down here.’
Local Alan McCandless, 70, told Metro said: ‘They speed over the bridge I have lived here 25 years there are accidents there and deaths. There are always flowers there for the dead.
‘What a shame it’s heartbreaking. There were police everywhere overnight. ‘Specialist accident investigators are on the scene.
A witness Nero Verbickas, 45, said: ‘We heard boom like a bomb then I saw a fire. There were people screaming
‘It was terrible. The police told me a woman was driving the car.’
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Jessica Fell-Hicks, 22: ‘The bus was smoking ambulances police everywhere. The front of the bud exploded it was like a fireball.
‘There’s accidents all the time. We saw a motorcyclist fire there recently.’
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