Youth drives off in a bus
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A REVELLER locked a driver out of his bus before crashing it into bollards at Cambridge bus station.
Videos posted on website YouTube show a large crowd of people, who had attended Strawberry Fair on Saturday night, watch the youth shut the Stagecoach driver out of the vehicle, before reversing it into the bollards.
One clip appears to show the exasperated driver head off to find police, only for the youth to get back into the bus and start the engine, to cheers from the crowd.
The culprit had fled the scene by the time officers arrived, to be greeted by the jeers of the assembled crowd. Andy Campbell, managing director of Stagecoach in Cambridgeshire, described the youth's actions as "sheer stupidity"
* and warned the incident could have been much worse if pedestrians had been injured.
The creator of one video wrote: "It's ******* like this who are going to get Strawberry Fair cancelled."
Mr Campbell, who confirmed the bus from its Huntingdon depot had not been damaged, said: "With that many people milling around the area, it could have been a serious incident.
It was obviously somebody incapable of driving a vehicle of that size. I hope the police find the person responsible.
"I feel it should go further than dealing with the culprit who tried to drive the bus. There were a number of people encouraging this."
Justin Argent, Strawberry Fair chairman, said:
"Any link with the fair is circumstantial - it could have happened at any time.
This wasn't anything to do with us and it didn't happen on the site."
A Cambridgeshire police spokeswoman confirmed officers were examining the videos for evidence after being made aware of them by the News.
She said: "Police were called at 10.16pm to reports of a man reversing a bus into bollards at Drummer Street, Cambridge. Police attended at 10.20pm and there was no reported damage to the bus and no complaint was made.
"The matter is being investigated and the footage is being examined by officers