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The emergency response to a terrible crash that killed a London bus driver and injured 14 others will be broadcast on television tonight

The latest episode of the BBC1 Ambulance documentary shows the response of London Ambulance Service teams and other frontline responders to the late night incident on Halloween last year

Nicola and Maisie Broszek, a mother and daughter, were urgently diverted at the scene, as they headed for a 999 call to treat an 86-year-old woman with breathing difficulties, to join the massive response to the Orpington accident

A Skoda car driven by a drug dealer drove at high speed on the wrong side of the road, crashing two single-seaters – an R11 and a 358 – on Sevenoaks Road

One bus ended up in the garden in front of a house The other, which was hit by the car, resulted in the death at the scene of 60-year-old bus driver Kenneth Matcham

Maisie, an emergency medical ambulance, who treated the surviving bus driver, was 20 at the time. She recalled: “A scene like this is so chaotic it can feel overwhelming when I look at what other people my age see and experience, it’s very different from my work Twenty-year-olds don’t really find themselves in these situations « 

Sher told BBC Breakfast today: « The hardest part about it was on the patients involved and the first [crews] on the scene We had a pretty easy game « 

The crash was declared a « significant incident » About 40 LAS personnel responded to the scene

Garrett Emmerson, Managing Director of LAS, said: “Fortunately, that maybe only happens a few times a year, and to see on screen tonight the professionalism and dedication of all our crews and people. who have to respond to these incidents day in and day out, big or small, gives the public a sense of what is going on behind the scenes and what it takes to be able to care for patients in London when they need it most need « 

Car driver Dorjan Cera, 20, was sentenced at Old Bailey in August to seven years and eight months in prison He had previously pleaded guilty to numerous offenses, including death by dangerous driving

Police say Cera, who was licensed to deal in drugs and driving offenses at the time of the crash, had driven on the wrong side of the road when he crashed into the bus driven by his seven year old grandfather M Matcham, from Gravesend

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Orpington Bus Crash