Desperate bus driver causes commotion

Apparently the saying when you've got to go, you've got to go, applies in equal measure to car and bus drivers. This much was made clear when a woman made a beeline for the nearest London lavatory in the double-decker that she was driving.

In her eagerness to find a toilet she mistakenly took a wrong turn down a one way street in the heart of the city. One can only imagine the mixture of shock and embarrassment that she must have felt upon seeing a stream of traffic moving fairly gradually in her direction.

Luckily the police were on hand to create a temporary barrier, allowing the desperate bus driver to extricate herself from the nasty situation. It hasn't yet been established whether her quest to find a loo proved successful in the end.

A local police officer said, “My first thought was ‘oh my God, someone’s stolen the bus. But when we stopped it, the driver jumped off and said ‘sorry I need the loo’.

“Being a one-way street, people often only look one way when they’re crossing. Someone could easily have been hit.”

Perhaps the affable London mayor Boris Johnson will see this case as evidence of the need to spend money on buses with on-board toilets.

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