Accidents Gallery

Bus embedded in house, Blackstock Road, London

Bus embedded in the front of a house in Blackstock Road, London NW4, on 13 January 1974. The car in the foreground was shunted through a garden wall after being struck by the bus, and another car has been turned round by the impact. Date: 1974

© London Fire Brigade / Mary Evans Picture Library

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Railway accident at Abbots Ripton, Huntingdonshire

A railway accident at Abbots Ripton, Huntingdonshire (now Cambridgeshire) on the Great Northern Railway. Shown here is the raising of a locomotive from the wreckage. The accident happened when the Flying Scotsman express train from Edinburgh to London was involved in a double collision, during a blizzard, with a coal train and another passenger train. Thirteen passengers were killed, and 59 people injured

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

C17th Fire Engine/Dutch

An early fire engine in use in Holland. The first flexible hose was invented by Jan van der Heijden in 1672 in the Netherlands, and a pre-cursor of this may be shown here

© Mary Evans Picture Library

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