‘My brain did not connect with my leg’

A bus driver who killed a commuter when he put his foot on the accelerator instead of the brake told a court: ‘My brain did not connect with my leg.’ Olusofa Popoola, 60, was driving an electric 507 single decker which shunted into the back of a driverless bus that ran over Melissa Burr, 32, outside busy Victoria Station. Ms Burr, 32, from Rainham, Kent, was walking between the two buses at the time of the collision around 8.25am on…