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Woman fights for life and children injured in NSW bus crash Woman suffers head injuries and children injured in NSW bus crash
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One woman in her 60s has suffered serious head injuries and a teenage boy has limb fractures after a school bus crashed in southern New South Wales. A woman in her 60s has suffered serious head injuries and a young boy a broken leg after a bus carrying a Griffith church group crashed in southern New South Wales.
Ambulance NSW were called to the accident on Burley Griffin Way at Harden, northwest of Canberra, just before 8.30am on Friday. Ambulance NSW said a “confronting” scene greeted paramedics called to the accident on Burley Griffin Way at Harden, northwest of Canberra, just before 8.30am on Friday.
Images posted on social media show the white coach had run off the road and into a nearby paddock. Images posted on social media show the bus had run off the road and crashed into a paddock, with its front crushed and windshield smashed.
Ambulance NSW said the bus was carrying adults and children aged between 10 and 14. The coach is believed to have been heading to Sydney.
A woman, believed to be 65, is in a critical condition, while the 14-year-old boy is being treated for limb fractures. Authorities said the bus was carrying 28 people, including the driver, with the children on board aged between eight and 14.
Twenty-six others on the bus are being treated for minor injuries. The woman, 65, and eight-year-old boy have been flown to Canberra Hospital.
Ambulance NSW Superintendent Mark Gibbs said it was a “confronting” scene for paramedics. Ambulance inspector Stephen Pollard said neither patient had life-threatening injuries.
“Turning up to a job like this is really difficult, often you don’t know what to expect, especially when children are involved,” he said. “They will be OK,” he said.
Twenty-five others on the bus, the majority of them children, have been transferred to Harden Hospital with minor injuries.
“I suppose we can say they were all shaken, but not stirred,” Pollard said.
“We walked them up to the top of the hill. We did a quick triage to make sure none were seriously injured. Then we organised a bus to get them into Harden Hospital.”
The driver is at the scene assisting police, with a crime scene set up and the Major Crash Task Force on their way.
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