To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. Witnesses have described how a bang ‘like an explosion’ was heard followed by ‘scenes of utter mayhem’ after a car ploughed into a bus leaving one woman dead and two injured.
![[A tragic incident unfolded in Harrow on Monday evening when a London bus collided with a bus stop at the junction of Lower Road and Bessborough Road. The accident, which occurred shortly after 10:20???PM, has resulted in one fatality and left four people injured, including a nine-year-old child. Preliminary reports indicate that the bus driver???a woman who remains uninjured???was attempting to service the bus stop when she was forced to take evasive action. According to eyewitness accounts, another vehicle overtook her at speed, compelling her to swerve sharply. This maneuver caused the bus to veer into the bus stop where several passengers were waiting, with one individual reportedly thrown into a nearby garden by the impact. Emergency services responded swiftly to the scene. The Metropolitan Police, along with teams from the London Ambulance Service, attended the area, and a major incident investigation has been launched by the Metropolitan Police???s collision investigation unit. Ambulance crews treated patients on scene, and those with more serious injuries were transported to a major trauma centre for further care. Road closures and diversions are currently in effect in the area as investigators work to piece together the events leading up to the crash. Authorities are reviewing CCTV footage and are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed the incident or captured any footage to come forward with information. The bus driver is being questioned as part of the investigation, and no arrests have been made at this time. Residents and commuters in Harrow are advised to avoid the area while the investigation continues.]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/SEI_241343202-0762.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
Emergency services were called to the scene in Bessborough Road, in Harrow, north west London, at around 9.15pm yesterday after a 395 bus was involved in a crash with a car. The Metropolitan Police said a pedestrian, a woman aged in her 40s, died at the scene and two others were injured. They have been taken hospital where their injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
![[The scene in Harrow in north-west London after a woman died and two other people were injured after a crash involving a car, bus and pedestrians. The driver of the car, who stopped at the scene, has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. Police, paramedics and London's Air Ambulance were called to the scene on Bessborough Road, Harrow, just after 9.15pm on Monday. Picture date: Tuesday February 25, 2025. PA Photo. See PA story POLICE Harrow. Photo credit should read: Emily Smith/PA Wire]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/SEI_241392966-4d63.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
It is thought that the pedestrians got off the bus when the car struck. The driver of the car stopped at the scene and he was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. He remains in custody. Neighbours have described running out of their houses to find the injured scattered across the street.
![[A London Ambulance Service spokesperson said: ???We were called at 9:17pm on 24 February to reports of a road traffic collision near Whitmore Road. ???We sent multiple resources to the scene, including ambulance crews, a paramedic in fast response car, an incident response officer, members of our hazardous area response team (HART) as well as command support vehicles. We also dispatched a trauma team from London???s Air Ambulance.??? ???We treated four patients at the scene before taking two patients to a major trauma centre and discharging one patient at the scene. Very sadly, despite best efforts of our crews, one person was pronounced dead at the scene.???]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/SEI_241347399-7b48.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
Dramatic images show the aftermath of the collision with the car hitting the bus and careering into a garden fence. Debris can be seen laying strewn across the road including possessions believed to have belonged to a schoolboy who was injured. A pensioner told Metro: ‘We were having dinner and heard a bang like an explosion.
‘We went out and there was utter mayhem and people laying on the ground. There was a distraught woman who had seen what had happened, she was hysterical. ‘The paramedics were there very fast and worked so hard on someone in a garden. They were giving chest compressions for ages. It was horrific, just carnage.’.
To get the latest news from the capital visit Metro's London news hub. Another witness, a mother of two aged 33, told Metro: ‘The bang was unbelievable it was like a bomb going off. There were injured on the road it was like a war scene. We are heartbroken to discover a woman has died.’.
The owner of the house next to the bus stop said the area was an accident black spot. Paramedics used his garden to give medical aid to those injured in the crash. He said: ‘There are a lot of accidents, we have pleaded for cameras. This is such a tragedy. We are all devastated.’.
The man’s fence has been completely destroyed in the collision which left the front of the car wedged in his garden. He added: ‘The damage is very bad.’. Medical packs lay strewn across the ground at the crash scene. The car was towed away in the early hours of the morning to be examined by accident investigators.
Police were still on the scene today and workers have set up a temporary bus stop to replace the one destroyed. In a statement, the police said: ‘The driver of the car stopped at the scene and he was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. He remains in custody.
‘Road closures were put in place while the scene was dealt with but have since been lifted.’. A London Ambulance Service spokesperson said: ‘We were called at 9:17pm on 24 February to reports of a road traffic collision near Whitmore Road. ‘We sent multiple resources to the scene, including ambulance crews, a paramedic in fast response car, an incident response officer, members of our hazardous area response team (HART) as well as command support vehicles. We also dispatched a trauma team from London’s Air Ambulance.”.
‘We treated four patients at the scene before taking two patients to a major trauma centre and discharging one patient at the scene. Very sadly, despite best efforts of our crews, one person was pronounced dead at the scene.’. Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk.
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