Double-decker bus crash leaves 17 people injured

A crash between two double-decker buses close to a city centre has left 17 people needing hospital treatment.

Two Bee Network buses crashed on Rochdale Road off Livesey Street, Manchester, but no-one was seriously injured, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said.

Images show debris strewn across the highway as one of the vehicles appeared to have hit the back of the other.

Firefighters had to cut one person out of the upper deck, with the injured people taken by ambulances and helicopter to hospitals across Manchester.

Nine road ambulances, an air ambulance and two response vehicles got to the scene at about 08.34 GMT, North West Ambulance Service said.

“Seventeen patients were taken to hospitals across Manchester, including seven on a bus accompanied by a paramedic," a spokesperson added.

Manchester councillor Pat Karney, who was at the site, posted on X to say there had been "unbelievable damage" to the front of the bus.

A GMP spokesman said Rochdale Road remained shut between Livesey Street and Moorhead Street while emergency services were at the scene.

Stephen Rhodes from Transport for Greater Manchester said the public transport body was talking to emergency services.

"We want to wish any passengers who have been injured a speedy recovery," he said.