Bus driver suffered 'event' at the wheel before coach overturned

A girl died when she was partially ejected from her school bus, which landed on her after the driver suffered an 'event' at the wheel and the vehicle overturned on the motorway, ezine articles a court heard today. 

Jessica Baker, 15, suffered 'instantaneous' death from 'catastrophic' injuries in the school-run coach crash on the northbound M53 near junction five at Hooton on the Wirral last Friday.

Stephen Shrimpton, 40, who was also killed in the accident, was driving the coach taking pupils to two local schools, West Kirby Grammar School and Calday Grange Grammar School.

In addition to the two fatalities, four were to taken to hospital, police said, and they included a 14-year-old boy who suffered life changing injuries.

A total of 52 people attended an emergency services training centre, with 39 discharged with no need for further treatment and 13 treated for minor injuries before being released.




Stephen Shrimpton, 40, who's believed to have suffered a medical episode at the wheel, died after the bus he was driving mounted the embankment between Junction 5 and 4 of the M56, in Eastham, Wirral, and overturned 





Jessica Baker (pictured), who attended West Kirby Grammar School, died when the coach she was on crashed in Hooton, Cheshire, on Friday morning













The coach was carrying pupils from West Kirby all-girls grammar and Calday Grange all-boys grammar school in Merseyside 





Emergency services were called on Friday after reports of an overturned coach on the northbound M53 near to junction 5 at Hooton, Cheshire



Eyewitnesses described how injured children climbed through windows of the bus to escape from the wreckage.