A double-decker bus carrying high school students plunged into a river in southern England on Thursday (June 26, 2025) sending the driver and four teens to the hospital and leaving more than a dozen others with minor injures, officials said.
The bus was bound for Barton Peveril Sixth Form College, a school for 16- to 18-year-olds, when it sped off a road in Eastleigh and plunged into the River Itchen. The cause of the wreck was being investigated by police and the bus company.
Overspeeding suspected
Police said there was no indication why the bus veered off the road. But a woman who lives nearby and heard a screeching sound and saw the bus crash through roadside barriers into the water said the driver told her he couldn’t stop.
Kelly West, who helped some of the students to safety, said the bus was driving at a speed of 100 km/hour and said it was like a scene out of “Speed,” the Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock film about a bus barreling through Los Angeles.
