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Two buses collide in Stanley, County Durham

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Two buses collided in Stanley, County Durham today. Both vehicles were on school-runs when the collision took place. It looks like a pretty nasty smash. Hope all the injured fully recover:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-27678417

Stanley school bus crash: 28 children taken to hospital

Twenty-eight children were taken to hospital, one with severe injuries, after two school buses crashed head-on in County Durham.

Police said about 50 children and two bus drivers were involved in the crash in Stanley at about 08:22 BST.

A 54-year-old driver and a 12-year-old boy were seriously hurt and 28 casualties suffered minor injuries.

The pupils, aged 11-18, were from St Bede's Catholic School, Lanchester, and Tanfield School.

Severe injuries

Thirteen ambulances were sent to the scene of the accident at the junction of Shield Row Lane and the A693....
 
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Nasty, and seemingly rather bizarre accident in Stanley yesterday morning. An image in today's Times shows a Pointer Dart embedded in the front of Paladin II-bodied Olympian. The Olly is in what appears the correct position, a small distance from the nearside edge of the carriageway and in a straight line, with the Dart looking to have driven straight at it on the wrong side of the road. There is tarmac visible behind the Olympian which would suggest the road is wide enough for two vehicles. Oddly both buses appear to be dead straight, literally as if driven directly at one another. Front wheels of the Dart are shown dead straight, while the Olympian has its wheels turned to the left, but doesn't seem to have actually begun to turn prior to the smash. Very odd indeed on the face of it.

Does anybody local have any thoughts on what happened here?
 
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It is notoriously tricky to determine the accident. I once saw a Trent Barton Michelover in Derby with a car embedded in it's front end, on its bus lane, as though the car had been deliberately driven at it.
 

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Nasty, and seemingly rather bizarre accident in Stanley yesterday morning. ...

Here is a link to the BBC latest news item on the matter, with a couple of pictures http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-27700269

The driver of one of two buses which collided head-on, injuring 28 children, has praised rescuers who freed him from the wreckage.

Paul Stephenson suffered serious leg injures when his double-decker was in collision with a single-decker bus in Stanley, County Durham on Tuesday.

The two drivers and several children, including a 12-year-old boy with facial injuries, remain in hospital.

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