THROUGH THE WALL

Bus crashes through pub garden wall

By Mike Wright
April 26, 2010

PUNTERS in Frimley Green had a lucky escape after a bus came off the road and went crashing through the wall of a pub garden on Monday April 19.

People had been enjoying the weather and a spot of lunch at the Rose and Thistle when the number 48 to Farborough careered off Guildford Road at around 1.45pm.

There was only the driver and a passenger onboard, who both had to be let out of the emergency exit at the rear of the vehicle by the fire brigade.

The crash caused a 6ft brick wall to collapse onto a table in the pub’s garden.

However Annie Cowell, the Rose and Thistle’s landlady, said there was no one sitting at the table as she had forgotten to return the chairs she had removed from it the day before.

“On Sunday the sun had moved so I moved the chairs from the table into the car park for some of my customers,” she said

“I planned to move them back in the morning but forgot. If I had some one would have been sitting there, it is a favourite table with the customers. It was pure fate.”