A van driver involved in a bus crash died of multiple organ failure just days after being discharged from hospital with a handful of painkillers.

Mayday Hospital bosses have launched an investigation after the death of 38-year-old Russell Bishop, who was sent home in a taxi an hour after being admitted to the accident and emergency department.

Delivery driver Mr Bishop had been driving along Park Lane, Croydon, when his van collided with a 407 bus pulling out of Wellesley Road, at 9.30am on February 28.

He was taken to Mayday Hospital but discharged an hour later after being prescribed painkillers, his mother Judith claimed.

Three days later he returned to Mayday complaining of feeling unwell and died in hospital of massive internal injuries within 48 hours.

A hospital spokeswoman said: “The doctors and nurses who treated Russell Bishop were sorry to learn of his death and would like to express their sympathy to his family for their loss. We have begun an investigation into the circumstances.”

According to his distraught mother, the father-of-two was treated by Mayday doctors for only an hour before returning home in a taxi on the morning of the accident.

Judith Bishop, 70, said she was too distressed to comment but said her son was left to recover at home using little more than a cold water bottle to tend to his aching injuries.

The building delivery driver from Mitcham was readmitted to Mayday still feeling sick on March 3, and died two days later, prompting the hospital to launch an investigation.

A message left on our website croydonguardian.co.uk on behalf of his sons Ethan, five, and Reece, three, said: “We will miss our daddy very much and think of him all the time. We love you daddy and we are sad you are gone.”

According to his mother, Mr Bishop had just passed through a green light while travelling north in Park Lane, as he collided with the 407 bus pulling out of Wellesley Road, at 9.30am.

A spokeswoman for Mayday said: "A full inquest is under way and until this process is complete it would be inappropriate for us to comment any further.”

An inquest was opened and adjourned at Croydon Coroner’s Court on Thursday.

ANOTHER MAYDAY ERROR?

Croydon man Louis Aurokium died in Mayday Hospital on March 5, 2008, just four hours after arriving suffering from chest pains.

Mr Aurokium had been helping his brother decorate when he began suffering from a series of minor heart attacks.

He was taken to Mayday Hospital where he was given indigestion medicine for his pain. Within hours Mr Aurokium’s health deteriorated until his wife, Santa Aurokium, was forced to shout for help.

A nurse came in, pressed the panic button and Mr Aurokium was rushed to the resuscitation room but was pronounced dead at 9.58pm the same day.

AN ACCIDENT BLACK SPOT In September 2008 another man was killed in a bus crash in exactly the same location as Russell Bishop.

Andrzej Karcz, 28, was decapitated after being thrown from the window of a bus when driver Raouf Mraidi, 29, ran a red light and slammed into a tram.

The collision sent the 468 bus careering down George Street, before it finally came to a halt by crashing into a parked BMW.

Mr Mraidi was convicted of causing death by dangerous driving and sentenced to four years in prison, however he left the country and has yet to serve a day of his sentence.