A teenager was taken to hospital after a smash between a car and a van in Dukinfield on Sunday evening (July 3). Emergency services were called to the scene of the crash, on Cheetham Hill Road, at around 5pm.
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Four people including the driver were taken to hospital after a bus ploughed into a building in Bolton. However, none were seriously injured, police have confirmed.
The double-decker Stagecoach bus smashed into a gym on School Street in Westhoughton just after 6:30pm on Friday evening.
CCTV footage shared on social media showed the bus speeding by a line of traffic into the wrong carriageway before crashing into a car at a junction and then ploughing into the building.
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The fire service initially said that one person was taken to hospital following the collision. Today Greater Manchester Police (GMP) confirmed that in fact four casualties, the bus driver and three passengers, were taken to hospital.
However, a spokesman for the force said the driver's injuries were not life-threatening or life-changing. The injuries suffered by the passengers were described as being "minor.."
No arrests have been made following the incident they added. The cause of the crash is still not known.
Lee Teder, 34, who owns the damaged gym, Renegade Strength and Fitness, was inside with six other people at the time.
He said it was a "small miracle" that no one was been seriously injured or worse. "There was a massive bang and debris everywhere," he told the Manchester Evening News.
"After a few seconds, we realised what had happened. We knew we had to get everybody out. We were all OK, just a bit shocked."
A mum also said she was left terrified and that her son is still 'having nightmares' after being left covered in bruises from the crash.
Shanice Birtles, 26, from Westhoughton said she raced to the scene in a taxi after receiving a call telling her
A teenager was taken to hospital after a smash between a car and a van in Dukinfield on Sunday evening (July 3). Emergency services were called to the scene of the crash, on Cheetham Hill Road, at around 5pm.
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