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Runaway coach caught on CCTV seconds before crash

Emily Ford
BBC News
BBC A white van is lifted off the ground ontop of a red recycling bin and covered in bits of broken wood. It's crumpled and the nose of a blue coach is digging into the left side of the van. The coach's window is smashed.BBC
The owner of the white van, hotel manager Simon Willis, said his vehicle was one of two written off

Two cars have been written off after a runaway coach crashed into them outside an Isle of Wight hotel.

CCTV footages shows the vehicle, which had reportedly suffered a handbrake failure, seconds before it smashed into a white van and white Ford Fiesta.

No-one was hurt in the incident, which happened outside Ocean View Hotel on 12 April at about 18:00 BST.

The manager of the hotel, Simon Willis, said the driver had been dropping people off so no-one was in the vehicle at the time.

CCTV from the Ocean View Hotel showed the coach seconds before the crash

He explained: "The coach was badly damaged. It got towed away on Sunday. The van is mine, it's a write off.

"It ended-up on its roof and another car parked nearby was written-off. It's near-enough demolished the bin store.

"Police reckon that if it hadn't hit the van it would have carried on going down the road."

A statement from Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary said: "We were called just before 18:00 on 12 April to a report that a coach had collided with two parked cars and a building at the Ocean View Hotel in Shanklin.

"No one was injured during this incident."

A white van and white Ford Fiesta are either side of a large dark blue coach following the crash. There is rubble on the ground all around the vehicles.
A second parked car, a white Ford Fiesta, was also written off

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