Several people were seriously injured after a coach crashed into a garden in Britain’s Lake District.
Three passengers and the driver, who were trapped in the vehicle for a number of hours, were released by the emergency services.
All of the 43 elderly passengers are being taken to local hospitals after the incident near Ambleside. They were on a day trip from Stakeford, near Ashington, Northumberland, with DFF Travel.
The hospital was treating 26 of the passengers this afternoon but expected to release at least 18 of them this evening.
Sergeant Tim Ward, of Cumbria Police, said the driver, Fred Messenger (53), was extremely shaken but uninjured in the accident.
The coach ended up about a foot from the back door of Mr Michael and Nancy Horrax's house, called Dunaluinn, on Kirkstone Road.
PA