More than a dozen people have been injured after a bus carrying school children collided with a lorry in Leicestershire. At least 16 people have suffered minor injuries in the crash on the A46 near Syston on Wednesday morning, Leicestershire Police said.

A bus carrying school children has crashed into a HGV, causing 10 passengers to be rushed to hospital. The collision took place on Wednesday morning on the A46 northbound near Syston, Leicestershire.

Five people have been hospitalised and 16 more injured after a lorry and bus carrying schoolchildren crashed on the A46. The collision happened at around 9.30am on a northbound stretch of the A-road near Syston,

Multiple people have been taken to hospital after a bus carrying schoolchildren and a HGV crashed. Several others have been injured in the incident, which happened at around 9.30am on the A46 northbound carriageway near Syston in Leicestershire. Police said the crash involved a bus carrying schoolchildren and a HGV.

At least 16 people sustained "minor" injuries in the crash on the A46 near Syston, Leicestershire Police said. Ten of those were taken to hospital as a precaution, the force added.

Leicester schoolchildren will be offered “counselling support” after a crash left several pupils injured. The incident on Leicestershire's A46 saw a bus and lorry collide near Ratcliffe College.

Ten people have been taken to hospital as a precaution after a crash involving a bus and lorry in Leicestershire, police have said. The bus contained 37 children travelling on a school trip and 16 passengers sustained minor injuries in the crash on the A46,