Calliope bus crashes while driving students to school
Seven children have been injured in a school bus crash in central Queensland.
The bus carrying 21 school children veered off Taragoola Road, Calliope, shortly before 8am on Monday.
The students were taken to Gladstone Hospital with minor injuries. There were five children transported to the hospital for observation. There were 21 students and a bus driver on board at the time of the accident.
It is believed that wet roads could be a contributing factor to the crash. The students are believed to have suffered only superficial injuries, such as bumps and scratches.
“We got called to a bus incident, unknown till we got here, discovered that it was a school bus, " added Ian Richardson, Captain of the Calliope Fire Station.
"There were several of the kids complaining of minor injuries. The ambulance and police were already on scene when we got here."
"There was a lot of parents, a lot of chaos but no serious injuries.”
"It looks like he has come around the corner and missed the corner and slide of the road."
Captain Richardson also sighted the size of the vehicle is "probably what saved it".
"Because of its length, it’s probably what saved it. If it had of been a smaller vehicle it probably would of rolled over."
A crane company from Gladstone is expected to come to the scene of the accident and assess the vehicle.
The accident will be investigated by the relevant authorities.
There have been a number of bus accidents in recent months around the globe.
Investigators at the site of a deadly French bus crash that left at least 43 people dead, as a convoy of vehicles takes away the bodies of some of the victims.
A tour bus collided with an amphibious duck tour vehicle in Seattle earlier in the year, killing two and injuring at least 21.
Two students were killed in Houston earlier in the year when a school bus traveling on the interstate smashed through an overpass guardrail and landed on the road below.
