Stagecoach bus bowling. Strike!

[TykeMerc]

The bus was speeding. The white lines in a 30mph limit are 4 metres long with a two metre gap. It takes the bus less than a second to travell 16 metres making the speed around 70 KMPH. The driver is a twat

Where can I buy a vehicle that does 70,000 MPH on the road? I don't care if it looks like a bus I want one!!!!!!

The kid's a Darwin Award candidate.

[NickFitz]

If you pause it and go to the 7 second mark (just after hitting the kid) you can see that the bus is 18 - 24 inches over onto the cycle lane, but has a car on its offside (in the right-turn lane) which would tend to make the driver keep over to the left. Also, if my interpretation of perspective is correct, the lane is only just wide enough for the bus in the first place.

So, given that people aren't actually robots, it's perfectly understandable that the driver, not wishing to get tangled up with the car to his right, and seeing a clear cycle lane to his left, would tend to move towards the left of the road.

And the kid is an imbecile for jumping over the railings when a bus was coming - but then, we all were at that age, and we were just lucky that none of the equally stupid things we did ended up like that.

Nasty accident, but the bus driver isn't to blame, and the kid was just doing what kids do. He'll at least learn the value of having a National Health Service, and maybe even be able to work out what pedestrian crossings (and railings) are for

[VectraMan]

I don't think anybody's mentioned this, but there are a couple of kids already walking the wrong side of the barrier in the cycle lane. And perhaps the bus driver should have slowed and given them more room.

Not that it means he's in any way to blame for hitting the idiot that leaps the barrier.

[KentPhilip]

Nasty accident, but the bus driver isn't to blame, and the kid was just doing what kids do. He'll at least learn the value of having a National Health Service, and maybe even be able to work out what pedestrian crossings (and railings) are for

With that vault he might be joining the 2012 Olympic high-jump team. That is if he can still walk.

[expat]

And the kid is an imbecile for jumping over the railings when a bus was coming - but then, we all were at that age, and we were just lucky that none of the equally stupid things we did ended up like that.

I shudder to remember. Some of us were not lucky, but they are not here complaining about it.

[BrilloPad]

4/5 years ago on Blackfriars bridge there was a bus lane on the left of the cycle lane. the inevitable happened. The bus lane now removed - does not help the poor girl who died though.