Bus driver with dementia kills boy, 7, and grandmother before ploughing into Sainsbury's

555 This is the moment a bus driver with dementia lost control of his double-decker vehicle and ploughed into a supermarket - killing a seven-year-old boy and a grandmother. Kailash Chander, 80, mistook the accelerator for the brake before the fatal smash, which left another two injured in Coventry. Today jurors at Birmingham Crown Court deliberated for around three hours before finding that Chander had been driving dangerously. And West Midlands has now released the shocking footage of the crash in which pedestrians can be seen running for their lives and flailing their arms as the bus comes speeding towards them. The CCTV begins by showing the double-decker pull out from behind a single decker bus at speed. It clips the rear end of the other bus before careering onto a grassed area, narrowly missing pedestrians and taxis. The bus finally comes to rest with the canopy of Sainsbury's embedded in the top deck. A subsequent examination of the bus found no mechanical defects. Chander, a former mayor of Leamington Spa, was ruled mentally unfit to stand trial due to post-traumatic stress disorder and frontal lobe dementia. He was diagnosed with dementia after the crash and may face a supervision order at a further hearing in November. Chander, who was 77 at the time of the crash, was excused from attending a "finding-of-facts" trial after psychiatrists said he would be unable to give evidence or instruct lawyers with regard to the crash. Seven-year-old Rowan Fitzgerald was with his cousin, grandfather and uncle on the top deck of the bus when it crashed into Sainsbury's supermarket on Saturday 3 October 2015.

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