Police: Driver and schoolgirl killed in M53 bus crash

Merseyside Police has said a 14-year-old girl and the driver of a school bus that crashed on the M53 motorway have died.

The coach collided with a car just before 8am on the northbound M53 en route to West Kirby all-girls grammar school and Calday Grange all-boys grammar school, in Merseyside.

In a press conference, Chief Superintendent Graeme Robson added two children have been taken to Alder Hey Children's Hospital and eight have been taken to other hospitals after emergency assessment.

Report by Brooksl.

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