Three “high-priority” patients have been taken to hospital after a double decker bus carrying students left the road and ended up in a river.
A bus crashed off Bishopstoke Road in Eastleigh, Hampshire, into a river was carrying students from Barton Peveril Sixth Form College.
Three people have been taken to hospital and 14 others were treated at the scene.
Hampshire Constabulary said that everyone on the bus had been accounted for following the accident at 10.07am on Thursday.
A South Central Ambulance Service spokesman said that it scrambled two helicopters and five ambulances to the scene, with three patients taken to hospital and 14 treated at the scene with less serious injuries.
The spokesman said: “We have sent multiple units to the incident including five ambulances, two helicopters, and specialist response units.
“We’re continuing to support and assess patients on scene. All patients have been removed from the bus. Three high priority patients are being taken to hospital. Around 14 with less serious injuries are being treated on scene.”
A spokesperson for Hampshire fire service said: “We are on scene of an RTC involving one double decker bus that went off the road in Bishopstoke Eastleigh.
“Fire crews from Eastleigh, St Mary’s, Redbridge, Hightown and Portchester are in attendance alongside emergency service colleagues.”
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