{"id":55178,"date":"2026-06-23T15:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/major-incident-declared-in-kidwelly-after-bus-crash\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T15:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:00:08","slug":"major-incident-declared-in-kidwelly-after-bus-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/major-incident-declared-in-kidwelly-after-bus-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Major incident declared in Kidwelly after bus crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">First Bus confirmed the vehicle involved was the company&#8217;s X11 service, which runs between Carmarthen and Swansea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police confirmed all passengers on board the bus involved had been &#8220;safely removed&#8221; and were receiving &#8220;appropriate care&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A rest centre has been set up at the nearby John Burns Centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had sent three crews, from Tumble, Carmarthen and Kidwelly fire stations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hywel Dda health board said its teams were responding to the incident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our emergency departments are busy, and waiting times are likely to be longer as we treat individuals with the greatest need first,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Local vicar Father Jim Flanagan said he was re-routed due to the road closures and saw the bus over a hedge. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added there were multiple ambulances there, with lights flashing, and an air ambulance had landed in a field. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of his churches, St Mary&#8217;s in Kidwelly, has been opened should people wish to use it, he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c20ye768v6lo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Bus confirmed the vehicle involved was the company&#8217;s X11 service, which runs between Carmarthen and Swansea. Police confirmed all passengers on board the bus involved had been &#8220;safely removed&#8221; and were receiving &#8220;appropriate care&#8221;. A rest centre has been set up at the nearby John Burns Centre. Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[3524,327,2039,3496,6649,3169],"class_list":["post-55178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wales","tag-bus","tag-crash","tag-declared","tag-incident","tag-kidwelly","tag-major"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55178","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=55178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55180,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55178\/revisions\/55180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}