Children injured.FOURTEEN children were taken to hospital yesterday after two coaches carrying them to a safari park were involved in a crash with a car. The students, from Rednock School, in Dursley, Gloucestershire, had been looking forward to a day at West Midlands West Midlands, former metropolitan county, central England. Created in the 1974 local government reorganization, the county embraced the Birmingham conurbation and comprised seven metropolitan districts: Walsall, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Sandwell, Birmingham, Solihull, Safari Park before the crash. None of the pupils was seriously injured and the wounded were taken to Worcestershire Royal Hospital to be examined for whiplash whiplash n. a common neck and/or back injury suffered in automobile accidents (particularly from being hit from the rear) in which the head and/or upper back is snapped back and forth suddenly and violently by the impact. and nausea. All the parents have been informed, Gloucestershire County Council said on behalf of the school today. The crash involved two of five coaches heading for the attraction on the A449 Kidderminster Road at 10.10am. |
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