Bus driver avoids jail over death

A bus driver who killed a woman at London Victoria Station has avoided jail after admitting causing death by careless driving.

Olusofa Popoola mistakenly pressed the accelerator instead of the brake on his bus, shunting it forward into a stationary bus that then went on to hit Melissa Burr.

Thirty-two-year-old Ms Burr, from Rainham in Kent, died from multiple injuries following the crash, which occurred on Terminus Place on Tuesday 10th August 2021.

The Old Bailey, the chief criminal court for England and Wales, sentenced 61-year-old Popoola to 18 months in prison, suspended for two years.