A TWO-year-old girl who was taken to hospital with suspected head injuries after a crash last week escaped serious injury, police have confirmed.

Emergency services feared the toddler was seriously hurt when the Ford Transit van she was travelling in collided with a bus at a stop between Shildon and Bishop Auckland on Friday.

She and her mother went by ambulance to The James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough but once they were checked by medics were able to return home the same night.

The male driver and two other children were not badly hurt but taken to Darlington Memorial Hospital as a precaution.

The silver Transit had been travelling down the B6282 Adelaide Bank into South Church when it collided with the rear of the Arriva single-decker at the Rosemount Road bus stop.

The bus driver and passengers were uninjured.

  • Police appealed for witnesses to the incident around 12.45pm on Friday, February 24 to contact the collision investigation unit at Spennymoor on 101, quoting reference number DHM/24/02/2017/0166.