The Ghost Bus of Ladbroke Grove

The motorist testified to the police:

I was turning the corner and saw a bus tearing towards me. The lights in the top and bottom deck and the headlights were full on but I could see no sign of crew or passengers. I yanked my steeringwheel hard over and mounted the pavement(sidewalk) scraping the outside of a roadside wall. The bus just vanished.

The motorist who reported this to the local authorites in North Kingsington,London, in the 30's may have been drunk,hallucinating or maybe even dreaming behind the wheel when he had the accident. But, if so, so were hundreds of people who complained of being forced off the road by a phantom bus careening around the corner from St. Marks Road onto Cambridge Gardens, near the Ladbroke Grove undergound station. After one fatal accident, the local coroner took evidence of the apparition and discovered that dozens of local residents have claimed to have seen the spectral double-decker.
In fact, there had been many ordinary accidents, some even fatal, at the otorious injuction. Eventually, the local council straightened the road in that curve. And the accident rate greatly reduced. Thereafter, there were no more reports of the red bus.

*Frank Smyth,Ghost and Poltergeists, p.60