Man, 63, dies in bus collision

A man has been killed in a collision with a double decker bus off Edgware Road.

The 63-year-old, who has not been named, was pronounced dead at the scene after the accident on Seymour Street, near Marble Arch at 9.40pm last night.

A post mortem will be carried out today.

Police are investigating and have questioned the driver of the 36 bus involved.

A spokesman said officers were not treating the incident as suspicious and no one had been arrested.

Last month 23-year-old estate agent Emily Diamond was killed by a falling branch after a double decker bus hit an overhanging tree in Tower Bridge Road. In February pedestrian Carl Forshaw, 30, died after being hit by a No 15 double decker on Praed Street, near Paddington Station.

In January Eileen Daley, 58, of Shepherd's Bush, was killed crossing the A4 in Chiswick when she was hit by a car and thrown into the path of a bus.

In the same month three teenagers died when their car collided with a bendy bus in Charlton.

Last October young father Lee Beckwith, 21, was killed when he slipped under a No 25 bendy bus and was dragged for a mile along Ilford High Road. His father, Paul, called for bendy buses to be withdrawn.