FOUR schoolchildren were taken to Bolton General Hospital suffering from shock after the bus they were on was in collision with a four wheel drive vehicle today.

The accident happened at 8am near the junction of Beaumont Road and Junction Road West, Lostock.

The four-wheel-drive vehicle overturned in the crash, but the woman driver is not believed to have been injured.

The driver and four pupils from the school bus were not believed to be badly injured but all were suffering from shock.

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