A DOUBLE-DECKER bus with learner plates crashed into a tree sending glass flying through the air minutes before school children came down the road.
The Stagecoach bus was making its way up Mounthurst Road in Bromley, when the accident happened.
The road is used by pupils from Pickhurst Junior School, in Pickhurst Lane, to walk to and from school.
Mother Anne Weston, 40, of Mounthurst Road, Bromley, whose house is right next to the accident spot, has a son, Antony, 10, at the school.
She said: "If the crash had happened 45 minutes later, when school children were making their way home there could have been a really nasty accident.
"Glass flew everywhere, landing 40ft away. It could have got in a child's eye and blinded one of them.
"My husband had to clear up all the glass. It took him an hour and a half, it was disgraceful of Stagecoach to leave the glass on the road.
"Stagecoach shouldn't be putting double-decker buses on this road, let alone learners, it's crazy, the road is just too small."
Stagecoach refused to comment on the accident on the afternoon of July 4 although another neighbour said she had seen double-decker buses on the road before.
July 6, 2001 15:16
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