Neal Cooper is campaigning to get the road pedestrianised
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The father of a woman killed in a bus crash outside a theme park has spoken of finding his daughter's body.
Paula Rhodes and her husband Richard, from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, were killed outside Fantasy Island near Skegness on Easter Sunday.
The bus crashed into a car and a group of pedestrians. A Leicester woman and her two young sons also died.
Mrs Rhodes' father, Neal Cooper, saw the accident happen, but did not realise the couple were involved.
He said: "I went over to the scene and I saw there was a casualty, so I went to check their pulse.
"There was no pulse and besides I could tell she was dead, but I didn't know it was Paula at the time, I couldn't recognise her.
Richard and Paula Rhodes both died in the accident
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"It was several minutes later when I came back to her and started to recognise items of clothing and jewellery, then I checked in her handbag and found it was Paula."
Mr Cooper rejected suggestions illegally parked cars had contributed to the accident.
He said: "The bus was on the pavement and there was only one thing that could have prevented that happening and that was if the bus had not been there in the first place."
He is now campaigning to have the road where the accident happened pedestrianised.
A collection at Paula and Richard's funeral raised more than�400 towards that appeal.
Police are continuing to investigate the incident.
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