Survivor describes coach crash on bend

A friend of an injured coach passenger spoke about the accident as he went to visit him in hospital today.

The friend, who described himself only as John, said Eddy Loney, 37, who is in Charing Cross Hospital, west London, was “all right but had suffered lots of cuts and bruises”.

He related his friend’s description of the incident, saying how it happened when the coach was on a bend.

He said: “He is going round the bend. He has left Heathrow half an hour late and he’s trying to make up for lost time.

“He’s taken the bend too fast, he’s lost the back one way then he’s lost it the other way then it’s come back the third time and he’s heading towards the reservation. That’s when he knew they were in the shit.”

He said of his friend: “He is surprised only two people died. There was blood everywhere, apparently.”

The man said another female passenger fell on his friend, who was on the top deck of the coach.

Mr Loney, who worked as a “steel fixer” at Heathrow’s Terminal 5, managed to walk away from the accident.

The friend said he believed the window frame on the coach saved his life.

Mr Loney, from Renfrew, Scotland, who had spent New Year in Scotland, was returning after a few days back at work to see his long-term girlfriend in Scotland.