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Empty school bus crashes into patio wall at Irish pub; driver injured

Updated Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012 | 12:09 p.m.

A school bus with only the driver onboard crashed Thursday morning into a patio wall at an Irish pub, Metro Police officials said. The bus was making a left turn onto Cameron Street around 9:15 a.m. when it crashed into a sedan. Police said the bus driver then hit the gas instead of the brakes and sped into the concrete wall outside McMullan’s Irish Pub, 4650 West Tropicana Ave., just east of Tropicana and South Decatur Boulevard. Bartender Mary Bligh said she was walking into the pub from the back door when she heard a loud bang. At first, she ...

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  1. Only six people in the pub at 9:30 a.m.? That is hard to believe.

  2. should we tax home owners to fix the bus?

  3. Maybe rubber bumpers on the bus would have helped avoid that much front end damage?

    Ok...ok, I'll stop.

  4. The headline indicates the bus was empty, but the injury to the driver indicates that it was not, in fact, empty. The article gets it right so I forgive y'all.

  5. Considering she's a female driver and not wanting to be sued for discrimination, she will be promoted.

  6. Leave it to McMullan's to come up with drive through service. Guinness to go please!

  7. McMullan, Bligh, and Malone"now if it turns out the bus driver is Irish, coincidence will evolve into conspiracy.

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