Throughout 1937 the crossroads are once again subject to reports about its safety after the death of a little girl while crossing the roads. Emergency services were called to the scene including nine ambulance crews and police. The Pictorial newspaper added to the stories with their own witness that elaborated on the ghost bus and added key aspects to the story. By the 1960s, Elliott was in his late 80s and relying on Harry Ludlam to edit or ghostwrite his books. Thomas Gurden, appeared in court for driving a bus in a dangerous manner in West Kensington. In the 1930s, the Junction of St Mark’s Road and Cambridge Gardens in that area had long been considered a dangerous corner – it was “blind” from both roads and had been the scene of numerous accidents. He added that one night the foreman and assistant were on duty at the garage when the foreman saw a bus out in front, evidently wanting petrol, and called to the assistant to attend to it. Gibson’s statement to the Daily Telegraph and claims, “A mechanic at nearby St Andrew’s Garage then disclosed that several puzzled motorists had told him of their personal encounters with the phantom bus. The newspapers mention several times that the spot is well known locally as a dangerous corner especially when two vehicles are passing. Update: No.7 – a quick couple of points on the Ghost Bus being the ‘No.7’ that is mentioned in several online references. The bus driver claimed in court that ‘for some reason had lost control of the bus’. Now with greater access to reports, newspaper archives and much more I was able to really deep dive into the local history and try to understand what was happening at the time. Elliott O’Donnell was Britain’s leading ghost hunter, or at least the most publicly visible. In June 1934 numerous newspapers reported the inquest into the death of Ian Beaton (25) who was killed in a fatal collision on St Mark’s Road and Cambridge Gardens (sometimes reported incorrectly as Camberwell Gardens). Turning around he saw the driver of the bus trying to avoid a lorry…the bus skidded and the vehicle mounted the pavement where the woman was standing.” The cause of the crash was a fast-moving lorry that was never identified, that forced the bus off the road. A motorcyclist crashes into the side of a turning bus on Ladbroke Grove. A male bus driver was also treated at the scene for minor leg injuries before transferred to Prince of Wales Hospital. The first accident on St Mark’s Road and Cambridge Garden’s Crossroads – October 18th 1930. Michael Allan Whitton, 53, from Frenchs Forest, was driving a bus in wet conditions on the afternoon of Monday, July 27 near UNSW. All the Friday 20th December 2013 news All the Friday 20th December 2013 news A bus has crashed into a Kennington, emergency services are attending. She went to the corner, and when she had got there, she found there was no bus in sight. — The Bloomington Police Department (BPD) is investigating a deadly crash involving a pedestrian and a bus on Thursday. Buses are diverting away from Anzac Parade through local streets, skipping up to 15 stops. The school bus, with a male driver and female passenger onboard, had collided head on into a hydro pole. They put a man who was not qualified to drive this trolley bus under the instruction of a trained man.”, A witness Helena Trenchard, said she was in the car when it happened and that, “they drove to the refuge and halted for a moment to look up Cambridge Gardens, there were two lights coming down the hill some way up, they then turned into Cambridge Gardens..the two lights swerved towards us when we were practically on the left side of the road, the two lights crashed into us broadside.”, The London Ghost Bus takes centre stage – June 1934. Man arrested in crash that killed 75-year-old woman in West Kensington: Police WPVI 1/4/2021. His horses unnerved, darted across the road into a public house. Kensington & Chelsea ... Ladbroke Bus Crash: 14 Injured As Bus Mounts Pavement. Among the most impressing of these witnesses was a local transport official who claimed that he had seen the vehicle draw up to the local bus depot in the early hours of the morning, stand with the engine purring for a moment, and then disappear. Again Ladbroke Grove, but this is the first time a ‘ motor ‘bus’ is reported to have crashed in the area. The Coroner: Can you say if either of the cars were to blame? By the time the petrol had arrived the bus vanished.”. The Northern Whig, Belfast newspaper reports that a Hansom Cab driver, William Goodfellow was charged with being drunk and incapable when in charge of driving a vehicle. New Kensington police are asking for the public’s help with finding a missing woman. Cyril Serby, a motor mechanic and brother of famous horse jockey, P.Serby lost his life when he fell off a bus during a test drive. Police are investigating a crash involving a school bus in the Kensington section of Philadelphia. He declared that cars often travelled at a speed of 50 miles an hour.”. Since the installation of traffic lights in the area around 1920, St Mark’s Road and Cambridge Gardens became a short cut for passing lorries and motorists – many of which were speeding on very narrow streets not suitable for buses and lorries. Thomas Gurden, appeared in court for driving a bus in a dangerous manner in West Kensington. And then Harry continues and completely mixes up the Ghost Bus story, “At the junction of Cambridge Gardens and St Mark’s Road is a spot which had a very high accident rate during the early 1930s. Two passengers who were trapped on the top deck of the bus have now been freed, London Fire Brigade (LFB) said. And it was in these books the Ghost Bus story gained real traction, in 1969 Harry Ludlam was interviewed about Elliott’s favourite ghost stories. The lights of the top and bottom decks and the headlights were full-on but I could see no crew or passengers. Five people have been injured, one badly, after two buses collided at the corner of Anzac Parade and High Street in Kensington just after 4pm. But the mystified assistant came back to say that the bus had gone.”, Harry further elaborates the truth, “the inquest court now heard how the dangerous junction was firmly believed to be haunted by the phantom bus; how hundreds of people in North Kensington talked about the apparition and dozens claimed to have seen it.”.