Four children taken to hospital following school bus crash in Co Down yesterday [Video]

FOUR CHILDREN WERE hospitalised after a school bus overturned in a field in Co Down yesterday.

The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) said 43 people and a driver were on the vehicle when it crashed on the Ballyblack Road East in Newtownards, around 20km east of Belfast.

The incident happened at around 3.50pm yesterday afternoon.

The NIAS declared a major incident after the crash yesterday and it treated and discharged 33 people at the scene.

Four children were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and several other patients self-presented at Ulster Hospital.

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The PSNI added that a casualty centre was set up at Strangford College but that all children had either returned home or were taken to hospital.

Northern Ireland’s public transport provider Translink is assisting the PSNI with its investigation.

Translink chief executive Chris Conway said no other vehicles were involved.

The bus had been carrying pupils from Strangford College to Bangor and the double-decker ended on …