A bus carrying six school children has overturned on a rural road near Wellington.
The overturned school bus Photo: RNZ
The children, aged about 6 or 7, were on a school outing when the accident happened on South Makara Road, just before 9am.
Constable Neil Kelland said the children were all wearing their seatbelts.
Ambulances, a fire truck and a rescue helicopter rushed to the scene, but they were not needed.
The children were checked for injury, with one child suffering a cut to their lip, but they were returned to school after the crash.
Constable Kelland said the cause of the accident was not yet known.
Emergency services rushed to the bus crash but none of the six children were injured. Photo: RNZ
