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Runaway coach caught on CCTV seconds before crash

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Two cars have been written off after a runaway coach crashed into them outside an Isle of Wight hotel.

CCTV footages shows the vehicle, which had reportedly suffered a handbrake failure, seconds before it smashed into a white van and white Ford Fiesta.

No-one was hurt in the incident, which happened outside Ocean View Hotel on 12 April at about 18:00 BST.

The manager of the hotel, Simon Willis, said the driver had been dropping people off so no-one was in the vehicle at the time.

CCTV from the Ocean View Hotel showed the coach seconds before the crash

He explained: "The coach was badly damaged. It got towed away on Sunday. The van is mine, it's a write off.

"It ended-up on its roof and another car parked nearby was written-off. It's near-enough demolished the bin store.

"Police reckon that if it hadn't hit the van it would have carried on going down the road."

A statement from Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary said: "We were called just before 18:00 on 12 April to a report that a coach had collided with two parked cars and a building at the Ocean View Hotel in Shanklin.

"No one was injured during this incident."

A second parked car, a white Ford Fiesta, was also written off

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