{"id":684579,"date":"2026-05-21T06:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T06:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/684579\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T06:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T06:03:10","slug":"bus-carrying-school-students-crashes-into-tree-in-western-sydneys-erskine-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/684579\/","title":{"rendered":"Bus carrying school students crashes into tree in Western Sydney&#8217;s Erskine Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A bus driver is in a critical condition in hospital after the vehicle he was driving with dozens of school students on board crashed in Sydney&#8217;s west.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The incident happened on Erskine Park Road in Erskine Park about 1pm on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">All students have been taken off the bus and were assessed by paramedics, Fire and Rescue New South Wales said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The bus driver was trapped in the vehicle for a short time before being freed and treated by paramedics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A NSW Ambulance\u00a0spokesperson said the driver was in a critical condition at\u00a0Westmead\u00a0Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The spokesperson said eight children had been taken to various hospitals with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A white bus in top left with emergency serviced vehicles on the roads and people, some in hi-viz, standing around\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/613513734c6c424f567abbfe26c98280.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">NSW Police and Ambulance rushed to the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A NSW Ambulance spokesperson said there were about 40 teenagers on board the school bus when it veered off the road, hitting a pole and then a tree.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">It will be investigated whether the driver experienced a medical episode in the lead-up to the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">NSW Police said students aged between 16 and 18 were taken to hospital for further treatment, one with suspected fractures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The rest of the students and a teacher were shaken but not physically hurt, NSW Police said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">NSW Police, Ambulance and the Department of Education all attended the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bus driver is in a critical condition in hospital after the vehicle he was driving with dozens&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,1154,330014,44,67410,5327,16391],"class_list":["post-684579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-crash","tag-erskine-park","tag-news","tag-school-bus","tag-students","tag-western-sydney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}