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Man, 63, dies in bus collision
Elizabeth Hopkirk, Evening Standard10 Jun 2008
A man has been killed in a collision with a double decker bus off Edgware Road.
The 63-year-old, who has not been named, was pronounced dead at the scene after the accident on Seymour Street, near Marble Arch at 9.40pm last night.
A post mortem will be carried out today.
Police are investigating and have questioned the driver of the 36 bus involved.
A spokesman said officers were not treating the incident as suspicious and no one had been arrested.
Last month 23-year-old estate agent Emily Diamond was killed by a falling branch after a double decker bus hit an overhanging tree in Tower Bridge Road. In February pedestrian Carl Forshaw, 30, died after being hit by a No 15 double decker on Praed Street, near Paddington Station.
In January Eileen Daley, 58, of Shepherd's Bush, was killed crossing the A4 in Chiswick when she was hit by a car and thrown into the path of a bus.
In the same month three teenagers died when their car collided with a bendy bus in Charlton.
Last October young father Lee Beckwith, 21, was killed when he slipped under a No 25 bendy bus and was dragged for a mile along Ilford High Road. His father, Paul, called for bendy buses to be withdrawn.
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I was at the scene and appalled by the way the police handled the situation, something needs to be done, we need to have a better policing in incidents like this, the failed a large number of protocols and as a consequence failed to protect the victim or the driver! It appears that the focus of this government and the mayor of London is how to make money out of us tax payers, introducing billion of pounds investments like the congestion charge, text phone parking meter, Smart cars surveillances, yet they failed to protect the public. This government makes me feel ashamed and discuss me of how to go about conducting their business. Something needs to be done, my close friend died on the Feb 08 while cycling home to his wife at Marble arch, and now again another accident and not was done to prevent such accident, in the area when this happened the traffic light are not designed to have pedestrian to walk so we would take our judgement to when to pass! Surely their must be something better than this, and the mayor of London could introduce new ideas as previously proved to be so easily done!
- Robbie Safadi, London, 11/06/2008 00:52
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