{"id":22118,"date":"2025-01-30T20:18:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T20:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/lisburns-glenavy-road-shut-after-school-bus-collides-with-tree\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T20:18:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T20:18:17","slug":"lisburns-glenavy-road-shut-after-school-bus-collides-with-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/lisburns-glenavy-road-shut-after-school-bus-collides-with-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisburn&#8217;s Glenavy Road shut after school bus collides with tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Two schoolchildren have been treated for minor injuries after the bus they were travelling on collided with a fallen tree outside Lisburn.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Emergency services were called to an incident at 16:24 GMT on the Glenavy Road, which has been closed, near the junction with Whinney Hill.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A number of schoolchildren were on the bus at the time.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Two were treated and discharged by ambulance crews at the scene.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Lagan Valley MP Sorcha Eastwood told BBC News NI the bus should never have been on the road in the first place.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Eastwood said police signs warning drivers of obstructions ahead had been removed in recent days, with the same thing also happening on other roads in the area.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">She added that the effects of Storm \u00c9owyn are still being felt and with trees still in a precarious state, people should take extra care while out on the roads.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cd64x035j37o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two schoolchildren have been treated for minor injuries after the bus they were travelling on collided with a fallen tree outside Lisburn. Emergency services were called to an incident at 16:24 GMT on the Glenavy Road, which has been closed, near the junction with Whinney Hill. A number of schoolchildren were on the bus at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[3524,5657,8286,8285,326,210,3455,2635],"class_list":["post-22118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-ireland","tag-bus","tag-collides","tag-glenavy","tag-lisburns","tag-road","tag-school","tag-shut","tag-tree"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22120,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22118\/revisions\/22120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}