Pupils 'stable' after bus crash

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Two children were said to be "stable" and two others "comfortable" after a 33-seat Mercedes bus carrying around 26 passengers left the road outside English Martyrs School in Hartlepool on Wednesday.

Shocked young eyewitnesses described how the minibus appeared to swerve to avoid a child in the road before ploughing into a fence and a tree where a crowd of children were gathered.

Many of the injured are thought to have been from among the children on the street and not on the bus.

A total of 23 people were taken to hospital for treatment but only four were detained overnight.

The most seriously injured were two 12-year-old boys who were airlifted by air ambulance and police helicopter to James Cook University Hospital, in Middlesbrough. The hospital said on Thursday both boys, pupils at English Martyrs School, were in a stable condition.

Two other children detained at the University Hospital of North Tees, in Stockton, were said to be "comfortable". The other casualties, who were taken to the hospitals in Stockton and Hartlepool, were later released after treatment.

A 14-year-old pupil at English Martyrs School, said: "There were a lot of groups of children going home from school when one boy ran out into the road in front of the bus.

"It swerved to try and avoid him and as a result it left the road and ploughed into the fence hitting some of the kids in the street. Other kids jumped out of the way and were running from the scene screaming.

"There was a lot of blood everywhere, it was horrible."