School bus crashes near Melbourne – with emergency services rescuing 16 children after door was unable to be opened
- Bus veered off road while trying to avoid truck
- 16 on board taken to school on another bus
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More than dozen schoolchildren have had a lucky escape after their bus veered down an embankment and into a ditch at Fish Creek in the South Gippsland region south-east of Melbourne.
Emergency services rushed to the scene on Meeniyan-Promontory Road 185km from Melbourne around 8.15am Thursday.
The Country Fire Authority responded to a ‘high angle rescue’.
Emergency responders have since freed the children on board after the door of the bus was reportedly unable to be opened.
There are no reports of injuries with an investigation into the crash now underway.
Emergency services are at the scene of a bus crash in the South Gippsland region, where 16 children were on board
‘The 16 children onboard were uninjured and have been transferred onto another bus,’ a Victoria Police statement read.
‘The exact circumstances are yet to be determined and investigations remain ongoing.’
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An Ambulance Victoria spokeswoman told Daily Mail Australia that paramedics assessed ‘multiple’ patients.
‘However our services weren’t required for treatment or transport,’ she added
The Fish Creek and District Primary pupils were heading to school from the nearby town of Yanakie when the bus driver swerved to avoid a semi-trailer.
It’s understood the school bus veered down an embankment on Thursday (stock image)
The children are now ‘happy to be back in class’.
‘The driver turned a bend and there was a semi-trailer coming towards her in the middle of the road and she swerved to avoid it and ended up in a ditch,’ teacher Kerri Smith told the Herald Sun.
‘No one was hurt and they are all here at school.’
The incident comes nine days after a horror collision between a truck and a school bus packed with children from Exford Primary school heading home on Melbourne’s outskirts.
The truck driver was later charged with four counts of dangerous driving causing serious injury.
The crash left seven children with life-changing injuries and another 11 with other injuries.
