{"id":684581,"date":"2026-05-21T06:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T06:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/684581\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T06:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T06:04:09","slug":"sydney-school-bus-crash-driver-critical-after-erskine-park-crash-involving-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/684581\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney school bus crash: Driver critical after Erskine Park crash involving students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police said the bus was carrying a teacher and 41 students in years 11 and 12.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics treated a number of students at the scene, with five teenagers aged between 16 and 18 taken to hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>One is believed to have suffered fractures.<\/p>\n<p>A NSW Ambulance spokesperson said the driver, a man believed to be in his 50s, is suspected of having suffered a medical episode before the crash.<\/p>\n<p>He became trapped inside the vehicle for a short time before emergency crews freed him from the wreckage.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was taken to Westmead Hospital in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>The northbound lane of Erskine Park Road is closed.<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police said the bus was carrying a teacher and 41 students in years 11 and 12. Paramedics treated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-684581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684581","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=684581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}