ne individual has been taken to hospital with critical accidents and almost 50 others had been “assessed” on the scene of a motorway crash involving a college bus.
Emergency services had been known as on Friday shortly after 8am to reviews of an overturned coach on the northbound M53 close to to junction 5 at Hooton, Cheshire.
It’s thought the bus was en path to West Kirby all-girls grammar faculty and Calday Grange all-boys grammar faculty, additionally in West Kirby, Merseyside.
Each Calday Grange Grammar College and West Kirby Grammar College confirmed one in every of its faculty buses was concerned.
Alder Hey Youngsters’s Hospital and North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) later declared main incidents following the collision between the coach and a automobile.
In a press release, NWAS mentioned: “The belief despatched numerous sources to the scene involving ambulances, superior paramedics, our hazardous space response staff and a HEMS (helicopter emergency medical service) physician.
We’re conscious of a scenario involving one in every of our college buses on the motorway earlier at present. We’re actively gathering particulars and aiding affected college students and their households
“To this point, one feminine affected person has been taken to the hospital, struggling main trauma-related accidents.
“There are additionally almost 50 different sufferers being assessed on the scene. We’re working intently with our incident companions to convey folks away from the scene as rapidly as attainable.”
Alder Hey tweeted: “Our Emergency Division is at present extraordinarily busy and we’d additionally ask dad and mom to solely deliver their youngsters to the Division whether it is pressing.”
A spokeswoman for Merseyside Police mentioned: “We will affirm that emergency companies are on the M53 in Hooton following a collision involving a bus on the motorway.
“Simply after 8am we obtained a report {that a} bus had struck a reservation on junction 5 of the M53.
“Merseyside Hearth and Rescue Service is at present guaranteeing the protected removing of passengers and the motive force, and North West Ambulance Service are on the scene attending to anybody requiring remedy.”
In separate tweets, Calday Grange and West Kirby grammar colleges posted: “We’re conscious of a scenario involving one in every of our college buses on the motorway earlier at present.
“We’re actively gathering particulars and aiding affected college students and their households.”
Diversions are in place because the M53 is closed in each instructions between junctions three and 5.
Anybody who witnessed the incident or has dashcam footage or CCTV ought to contact Merseyside Police social media desk through Twitter @MerPolCC quoting 23000944471.
Alternatively, name 101 or contact the unbiased charity Crimestoppers anonymously, on 0800 555 111 or through their on-line kind at: https://crimestoppers-uk.org/give-information/give-information-online/