A retired nurse says she had no qualms about entering a crashed bus when she saw that a woman was trapped on the top deck last week.

Avril Steytler, 65, told News Shopper how she stayed with the injured woman until paramedics came on Friday (September 23).

She said: “I was standing at the bus stop as I had just seen my friend off.

“The next second glass came crashing down, I could see that the overhang was impaled into the bus right were someone was sitting - she had been trapped by the bus.

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Avril Steytler used her nursing skills to keep the injured woman calm as they waited for paramedics

“I immediately asked if I could help in any way as I was a retired trained nurse.

“By this time all the passengers apart from the lady who was trapped had walked off the bus.

“I was in the bus when they were removing seats preparing to get her free, I tried to take her mind off what was happening.”

Ms Steytler said she stayed with the woman until everyone was told to leave so the London Fire Brigade could remove the window.

The woman was then taken to hospital for treatment.

The former nurse said: “I stayed while she was being lowered once she was on the trolley.

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“I went over to her so she could see I had stayed as I promised I would as I left her, I watched her leave and she waved to me through the little window.

“She was such a brave lady, alert the whole time and we chatted about anything I could think of at the time, but she never panicked badly.

“Yes, it must have been scary and bloody painful for her but she never complained – so, so brave.”

Ms Steytler said she couldn’t tell whether the overhang had gone into the woman’s leg.

The bus crashed into a glass canopy outside intu Bromley shopping in Widmore Road around 2.45pm on Friday.

The London Ambulance Service and London Fire Brigade were on the scene and told News Shopper they rescued a passenger trapped on the top deck of the bus by nature of their injuries.