Bus collides with two cars and ploughs into house

A bus driver was injured today when his vehicle ploughed into a house after a collision with two cars in Battersea.

The number 137 bus was travelling along Queentown Road to Streatham Hill just after 2pm when it collided with the cars and ended up in the front of the three-storey terrace house.

The driver was taken to hospital suffering from minor injuries while three other adults and a child required treatment for shock.

It is not known whether they are passengers or were inside the house at the time of the crash.

Three fire engines and around 20 firefighters attended the scene to make the house safe.

Builder Andy Barber, 33, from West Hampstead who was working nearby said: "I was working around the corner at the time when I heard a loud bang. When I arrived at the scene, there were a string of ambulances and police everywhere.

"There's a few walking wounded and there seems to be a lot of panic at the front end of the bus."

A Met Police spokesman said only the bus driver needed hospital treatment and no serious injuries were reported.

Queenstown Road was closed off this afternoon while engineers worked at the scene to assess the damage to the house.