Video store's latest hit

Picture / Martin Sykes

A runaway bus ploughed into a video store in Te Atatu yesterday morning, leaving the back of the bus lodged in the shop but fortunately injuring no one.

The Stagecoach bus had been parked across the street from the Robertson Video Centre on Edmonton Rd before it rolled backwards through the store front.

The bus driver had gone into a lunchbar to have something to eat. No one was on the bus or in the video store when the accident happened at 8.15am.

Store owner Keith Robertson was about to get in the shower when he got a call to say the alarm in the children's and drama section had gone off.

"I thought, 'That's very strange'," he said.

He arrived at the shop to find the front of the bus protruding from a gaping hole where there used to be windows. Mr Robertson said shelves inside were destroyed but damage to the stock was minor because only video covers were displayed.

An investigation was underway to see whether the accident was the result of human error or a failed handbrake.

The bus was driven out of the shop about two hours after the crash.