Teenager hits bus after leap

A teenager caught on CCTV leaping over a 3ft safety barrier and smashing face first into a bus said he still takes the shortcut.

Rhease Denver, 14, said: “Everyone does it. It’s the quick way to the shop at lunch. I just make sure I look both ways now.”

Rhease was darting to a burger bar when he clipped the barrier outside Dumfries Academy last term.



He hit the side of the bus face first, then almost slid under the wheels of the seven-tonne vehicle. Rhease suffered a broken nose and right collarbone.

His mum Angela Noone, 35, said: “At the hospital doctors told me Rhease had paint from the bus in his mouth. Later the police showed us the dent in the bus. And they showed us the video in slow motion.”

Police are using the footage to teach road safety to other schoolkids, with Rhease’s backing.

See the CCTV footage here.