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Lucky escape as double decker hits scaffolding

Police at the scene minutes after the incident. Picture: ADAM CHARLTON
Police at the scene minutes after the incident. Picture: ADAM CHARLTON

A 16-year-old shop assistant narrowly escaped injury when a double decker bus crashed into scaffolding outside a town centre shop.

Ross Macre was unpacking punnets of strawberries at Paynes the Grocers in Pudding Lane, Maidstone, on Wednesday afternoon when the incident happened.

Glass was sent flying and a scaffolding clamp fell to the ground inches away from where the youngster stood as the bus hit poles at the junction with the high street.

The teenager said: “I heard this crunch and then all this glass from the bus and an orange clamp from the scaffolding fell. I was lucky it didn’t hit me on the head.”

The bus struck the scaffolding while attempting to create space for a double decker coming from the the opposite direction.

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