Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding a horror fireball crash which left a child and four others injured in hospital. Emergency services were called to the scene on Glasgow’s Cowcaddens Road shortly after 6am on Thursday, June 30, after a car collided with a bus.
We previously told how hero CalMac workers, who were on the single-decker vehicle, raced to free two trapped men from the wrecked motor that had smashed into the back of them. They managed to get a third man - who had a serious cut on his head - away from the motor seconds before it burst into flames.
Five people were treated at the scene by paramedics and fire crews before the four adults were rushed to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital for treatment. The Scottish Ambulance Service confirmed a child had also been taken to the Royal Hospital for Children however the current conditions of all those injured are not known.
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service sent four appliances to the scene with video footage capturing the crews swiftly extinguishing the flames which had engulfed the car.
Police Scotland have said that enquiries into the circumstances of the horror collision remain ongoing.
A force spokesperson added: “We were called around 6.15am on Thursday 30 June, to a report of a crash in Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow, involving a bus and a car.
“The road was closed between Cambridge Street and West Nile Street and re-opened around 8.05am. A number of people from the car have been taken to hospital for treatment. There were no other reported injuries.”
A Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said: “We were alerted at 6.19am on Thursday, June 30 to reports of a road traffic collision in Glasgow involving a car and a bus.
"Operations Control mobilised four appliances to the city's Cowcaddens Road, where firefighters extinguished a fire which had taken hold of a vehicle. Crews also provided treatment to a number of casualties and worked to make the area safe.
"Five casualties were thereafter passed into the care of the Scottish Ambulance Service, with four being taken on to Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital. Firefighters thereafter left the scene."
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