17 people were injured in a double-decker bus accident in Manchester

An accident between two double-decker buses near a city center left 17 people in hospital.

Two Bee Network buses crashed on Rochdale Road at Livesey Street in Manchester but no one was seriously injured, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said.

Images show debris strewn across the highway when one of the vehicles appeared to have crashed into the other.

Firefighters had to free one person from the upper deck, and some of the injured were taken to hospital by bus.

Manchester City Councilor Pat Karney, who was on site, Posted on X There was “incredible damage” to the front of the bus.

Mr. Karney told BBC Radio Manchester There was “incredibly great damage”.

“It’s hard to figure out what happened, but it looks like a bus crashed into another bus at high speed,” he said.

“People don’t wear seatbelts on buses, so they must have been traumatized.”

The city council called for an investigation into the incidents on the busy city center bus route.

Nine ambulances, a rescue aircraft and two emergency vehicles were at the scene at around 0834 GMT and also transported some of the injured to hospital, the North West Ambulance Service said.

“Seventeen patients were taken to hospitals across Manchester, seven of them on a bus accompanied by a paramedic,” a spokesman added.

Rochdale Road between Livesey Street and Moorhead Street was closed while emergency services were at the scene, but has since reopened.

Stephen Rhodes, from Transport for Greater Manchester, said the public transport authority was speaking to emergency services.

“We wish all injured passengers a speedy recovery,” he said.