Eyewitness describes 'chaos' with air ambulance landing after school bus involved in 'sickening' crash

There was 'chaos' after a minibus carrying school kids and a car were involved in a 'sickening' crash on a main road in east Manchester, an eyewitness has said.

The smash happened on Kirkmanshulme Lane in the Belle Vue area of Gorton at around 3:30pm this afternoon (Wednesday). Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said a car and a 'school bus' were involved.

Emergency services raced to the scene, including the air ambulance which was seen landing in the car park of a nearby bingo hall. The fire service said they cut two people free before being handed over to the paramedics.

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The road was taped off for several hours with the damaged vehicles visible inside the cordon. The Manchester Evening News has been told the crash wasn't a fatal one but the nature and seriousness of any injuries suffered are not yet known.

One local has now told us how residents on the housing estate built on the site of the former Belle Vue dog track helped lead the kids to safety before the emergency services arrived.

Sirous Fallahi, 32, said he heard the beeping of horns and screeching followed by a 'loud bang' shortly before 3:40pm. "I didn't think much of it at first," he said. "As you hear beeping all the time. But when I heard the bang I knew something had happened and that it could be bad.

"As it was an awful sound. Sickening. Us and a few other neighbours went out. As soon as I saw it and I thought 'there must be kids on there.' There was about five or six kids of them on there. They looked about 10. One of them was in a wheelchair. I'm not sure what school they were from.

"They were all panicking the poor things. They were all crying. It was just chaos, people running