Horror as bus carrying 10 passengers ploughs into two houses after hitting a truck
- Bus ploughed into two houses
- Two people rushed to hospital
A bus has crashed into two houses with two people rushed to hospital including a 17-year-old boy who had some of his teeth knocked out in the collision.
The vehicle hit a cement truck before ploughing into the homes at Safety Beach, on Melbourne’s Mornington Peninsula, at 11am on Wednesday.
About a dozen people were onboard the bus while another two were in the truck.
A bus has crashed into two houses with two people rushed to hospital
The vehicle hit a truck before ploughing into the homes at Safety Beach, on Melbourne ‘s Mornington Peninsula, at 11am on Wednesday
Nobody was inside the homes at the time, but passengers did have to be freed from the wreckage.
The bus driver, a man aged 44, and the 17-year-old boy were transferred to Frankston Hospital – both with non life-threatening injuries.
Another passenger sustained minor injuries and was treated at the scene by paramedics, Victoria Police Leading Senior Constable Jody Clayton said.
The truck driver, a 32-year-old man, was uninjured and is assisting police with their enquiries.
A Victoria SES spokesperson said they were called to the scene due to ‘several suspected entrapments’.
They remain at the scene as they work to remove the bus.
SES officers are seen at the scene of the crash. Two people were taken to hospital
Sharon, whose 17-year-old son was on board the bus on his way to work, said the teenager lost some of his teeth during the collision.
‘The bus was heading down towards Dromana Parade towards Portsea and a truck has come out of a side road and T-boned the bus and slammed the bus. The bus has then gone into two houses,’ she told 3AW.
Shocking photos from the scene show a corner of one house completely destroyed after the bus ploughed into it.
A wooden fence was also blown apart with palings seen sprawled across the yard.
Senior Constable Clayton said the impact of collision caused the bus to crash through the fence of one house, clipping its roof.
It then ploughed through a boundary fence into a second house ‘causing extensive structural damage’.
Police will continue to investigate the incident.
The vehicle hit a truck before ploughing into the homes at Safety Beach, on Melbourne’s Mornington Peninsula, at 11am on Wednesday
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