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Clinic director, Brent Barr, told The Free Press he received an alarm notification from his security company at 11:51 p.m. Tuesday and arrived at the business about 12:20 a.m. Wednesday.

Barr said he found the bus crashed into the building and a severely damaged vehicle in the middle of the intersection.

“The car was very, very, very badly damaged. Destroyed,” he said, adding the driver was nowhere to be found.

“There was a part 100 metres down (the road).”

No one was in the clinic at the time of the collision, Barr said, and no staff members or animals were hurt.

“At least we were very lucky none of our team members got injured,” he said.

Though access to area of the building where the bus crashed was blocked, the clinic was still operating Wednesday morning.

Barr said Wednesday morning the clinic was waiting for an engineering report to determine if the building had to be closed. If that happened, all animals would be transferred to their Wonderland Road South location.

All lanes on Oxford between Waterloo and Colborne streets were closed shortly after noon Wednesday for about an hour, as authorities worked to remove the bus from the building.

Just two weeks ago, another vehicle in the parking lot also crashed into a side wall, causing $30,000 in damages.

“We just had that wall fixed and now this,” Barr said.

Anyone with information about the driver of the Jetta is asked to call London police at 519-661-5680 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS.