On 04/06/2014 14:16, eastender wrote:

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H'mm, four men in their 20s, travelling with (or racing?) another
car, at 2:20am, at a high enough speed to kill one and critically
injure another...
What could possibly be wrong with that?

Yes, it sounds like the car which crashed was overtaking another,
which apparently fled the scene. The bus tried to swerve to avoid
(from the photos) to no avail.

"Boris Johnson told reporters that the bus driver was ‘probably not at
fault’."
http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news...rash_1_3627559

Well that's nice of him.

I can't really see anything wrong with what he said (apart, perhaps,
from the thought that he might not have commented on it at all were it
not for the model of bus involved).

I know that road well - I thought there were speed cameras near the
crash site but maybe I'm mistaken.

There is at least one speed camera on that stretch, but they don't
necessarily stop such antics - slamming on the anchors to avoid getting
flashed just becomes part of the challenge, before then letting fly
again once the speed camera's road markings have been passed.

I'm tempted to say that as long as there are young men, with access to
cars, then perhaps some amount of boy racer idiocy is inevitable. (Not
remotely in the same league, but I can recall some none too sensible
motorvehicle-related behaviour in my younger years.)