Coach Crash Rescue

Fire Crews from Abington and Biggar Community Fire Stations, and supported  by Strathclyde Fire & Rescue...

Fire Crews from Abington and Biggar Community Fire Stations, and supported  by Strathclyde Fire & Rescue appliances with water rescue capability and extrication equipment mobilised just before 6 a.m. this morning to the A73 at Wiston in South Lanarkshire following reports that a bus had left the road and gone down an embankment. 

On arrival at the incident crews found the bus on its side in the adjacent river. The crews immediately began to carry out the multiple rescues which confronted them whilst working in atrocious weather conditions. 

Strathclyde Fire & Rescue are currently operating closely with both the Police and Ambulance Service at the scene. 

There is no further information available at this time.