A BUS driver has been forced to resign after veering into the wrong lane to flatten a snowman.

The public transit bus can be seen in a YouTube video deliberately crossing on to the wrong side of the road to demolish the sculpture built on a quiet residential road by students.

The incident was filmed on the on the University of Illinois campus in Urbana.

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The video starts with a car travelling on the correct side of the road, having to slow down and precariously make its way around the obstacle.

Then from the other direction appears the bus, driving on the wrong side of the road, before hitting the snowman full on.

The students can be heard shrieking with laughter.

Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District spokeswoman Jan Kijowski said the driver has resigned after the incident was posted on the internet.

Kijowski said the district had laid down the law to all the drivers.

"Whenever an incident occurs, we try to use it as a teaching opportunity to remind the operators what are the safe and good choices that can be made," Kijowski said.

The video, called 'Insane Bus Driver Brutally Murders Snowman', has received over 25,000 hits since being posted on December 4.

Minutes before the bus approaches a car can be seen slowing down and driving round the snowman obstacle.

The creators of the video are then heard screaming 'No!' in the background as the bus deliberately drives into the four foot high snowman.

But the video has sparked a social media debate over who was really at fault – the bus driver or whoever put that snowman there.

More than 800 people had joined a Facebook page devoted to reinstating the bus driver.

"Help the Bus Driver who killed the evil snowman, get his job back," one of the comments says.

Some people said the bus driver,who has not been identified, prevented an accident by demolishing the road obstacle.

Originally published as Snowman-killing bus driver quits