Lisburn: Three injured after school bus collides with fallen tree

Emergency services, including police, the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service and the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service, attended the scene.

Speaking after the incident on Thursday, Lagan Valley MP Sorcha Eastwood told BBC News NI the bus should never have been on the road in the first place.

“A number of local people have told me that basically signage was in place,” she said.

“This could have been preventable because there are so many signs right across Lagan Valley at the minute to say there’s an obstruction. Please be careful on the roads, whatever it may be, and people are removing [the signs].

“People should not be removing them, we’re still dealing with the after-effects of Storm Éowyn and there’s a reason that the signs are there.

“Unfortunately now we’ve seen this situation where a school bus has clipped an already fallen tree and unfortunately there were some minor injuries.”