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Dorchester school bus carrying children skids into ditch

Ellie Ley A bus leaning over after skidding into a ditchEllie Ley
The bus skidded into a ditch near Sydling St Nicholas

A school bus carrying two pupils has skidded on ice and crashed into a ditch in Dorset.

It happened between Sydling St Nicholas and Grimstone, near Dorchester, at about 08:00 GMT.

The D2 bus, which takes children from the villages to Dorchester Middle School and Thomas Hardye School, is operated by Damory.

Neither of the children were injured and were later picked up by a minibus and taken to school.

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Damory said the coach "slid slightly on the road at low speed".

General manager Richard Tyldsley said: "It didn't fully leave the road, and there were no injuries to our driver or to the two children who were on board at the time.

"All three were able to stay onboard the coach in order to stay warm, whilst our engineers attended to assess and recover the vehicle."

Dorset Council said: "Damory sent a coach to complete the route and pick up the remaining students and take them to Thomas Hardye - with a delayed arrival time."

The Met Office issued a yellow weather warning for ice from 17:00 on Wednesday until 10:00 on Thursday.

Damory's service updates showed several of its school buses across Dorset were cancelled or diverted due to ice and flooding.

Dorset Police was not called but officers closed another nearby road - between Cerne Abbas and Sydling - at 08:30 after a lorry got stuck on a hill.

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