The Archive · 1940

Bus Hits Crater

When a bomb fell on a road ín front of a speeding bus, the vehicle could not stop in time and crashed into the crater. The bus was not carrying any passengers at the time, but the driver was injured.

'A. football club was severely burned by an oil bomb. In am ade joining borough fourteen bombs fell in as many seconds, apparently from a bomb basket of the type which was first used on London during Sunday night.

Although A.RP. workers and un employed persons worked through* out the night clearing the debris, it was inevitable that there was some dislocation of traffic this morning on account of the roads being pitted with deep craters, The craters naturally held up traffic and caused thousands to be delayed in going ta work—United Press,

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