Bus crash victims fight for lives

The bus mounted the pavement

A man and a baby are fighting for their lives in hospital following a bus crash in which four other people died.

The double-decker bus was in collision with a car and a group of pedestrians near a theme park in Ingoldmells near Skegness in Lincolnshire on Sunday.

The four who died included a young boy, aged about four, two women and one man.

The injured man and baby were taken to Pilgrim Hospital in Boston, but the baby was later transferred to Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham.

The man, one of two who had been trapped under the bus, was "very seriously injured", a police spokesman said.

The second trapped man was among those who died.

Two others - a woman and the child - died at the scene of the crash in Sea Lane, near the Fantasy Island theme park, just after 1700 BST. A second woman died after being taken to hospital.

We were very, very busy with thousands of people - the area around the accident has been closed. Theme park spokesman

Ch Supt Phil Carter told the BBC the coach had mounted the pavement, and then veered back onto the road where it had collided with a number of people.

He added: "Two people were trapped underneath the bus.

"We have spoken to about 40 witnesses. But clearly, there are other people who we haven't yet spoken to, and we would ask them to come forward."

He added: "There is an awful lot of work to be done to establish what happened."

The driver of the bus, which is owned and run by Lincolnshire RoadCar Ltd, is being interviewed about the crash.

The bus was thought to be on a regular service between Chapel St Leonards and Ingoldmells and the collision happened outside a car park near Fantasy Island theme park.

A representative of the theme park said it had still been open at the time of the crash.

"We were very, very busy with thousands of people. The area around the accident has been closed and barriered off."

A casualty bureau has been set up by police for anyone worried about a relative or friends, or who saw the incident.

The bureau can be contacted on 01522 532222.