By Stefan Morkis

STUNNED ONLOOKERS last night told of their shock at yesterday’s dramatic bus crash in Dundee.

John Hutton, from the Whitfield area, was one of the first on the scene.

He had been on a bus travelling in the opposite direction and which passed by just seconds after the impact.

He described how he attempted to help the injured bus passengers who were trying to free themselves from the wreckage.

“The bus had already crashed but the driver of the one I was on pulled over. I got off and ran over to see if I could help—the bus had gone right through the bollards, a fence and then right into the house.

“There were lots of people trying to get out the back window of the bus, so I was trying to help them down.

“They were mostly pensioners and bairns.

“I saw one guy carrying a young laddie who had blood all over his face and saw the bus driver who was lying slumped over the wheel.

“His arm was lying over the wheel and he was all covered in blood. He looked like a young guy, like he was only between 25 and 30.

“Everybody was in a panic.

“It took them about three quarters of an hour for the driver to get out.

“I saw him on a stretcher and saw him raise his arm so I thought that he must have been OK.”

Mr Hutton added that had his own bus arrived on the scene any earlier, then the consequences could have been catastrophic.

“The driver of the bus I was on said to me we were lucky. If we’d been there 30 seconds earlier then we would have been hit.”

Sixteen year-old Alan Cussick, whose brother was injured when the Travel Dundee bus ploughed into the family home, dashed to Happyhillock Road as soon as he heard the news.

“I was on Clepington Road when I got a phone call from my brother telling me,” he said.

“He was in the house but told me that nobody had been hurt.”

One woman, who lived in the row of flats behind those struck by the bus, was alerted to the drama by the crashing noise made as the vehicle ploughed into the front of Ms Roberts’ home.

“I heard a loud bang but didn’t know what had happened.

“I ran into the alleyway that separates the flats and saw the bus right in the house. It’s unbelievable. No one knows what has happened so we don’t know who is to blame,” she said.

One father was phoned at home to say his three children were on the smashed-up bus—and arrived to find the youngest’s pram being taken off the vehicle.

“I had been told on the phone that they were OK, but you can imagine what I was thinking when I saw that,” said Ronald Saunders, who lives in Dens Road.

“My three kids, a 12-year-old, 11-year-old and 16-month-old, were on the bus because they were coming home from visiting their gran.

“The 11-year-old, Elaine, had a leg injury but thankfully they are otherwise fine.”