School children have avoided injury after the bus they were in collided with a parked volunteer fire truck attending an earlier accident on Brookton Highway near Holden Road in Roleystone this morning.
Roleystone volunteer firefighters were cleaning up a fuel spill from a collision between a ute and a white Hyundai Elantra which happened before 8am.
About 8.25am a white bus carrying children on their way to school collided with a fire truck parked across Brookton Highway.
The front windscreen of the bus and the bull bar were smashed in and the driver, a man in his 60s, was pinned to his seat by his steering wheel.
Firefighters rescued the bus driver and he was taken to Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital for observation.
No children were injured.
A St John Ambulance spokesman said the bus driver was blinded by the sun while driving up Brookton Highway and didn’t see the fire truck before colliding with it.
A nearby resident said he heard both crashes.
“It was like a large metallic bang, like equipment being dropped off a vehicle,” he said.
The resident said since the Holden Road-Brookton Highway intersection had been upgraded there were less crashes but the morning sun over the crest of the hill made visibility an issue.
He said people drove to the speed limit on Brookton Highway and not the road conditions.
