Bacchus Marsh school bus crash: four people seriously injured after collision with truck near Melbourne

Dozens more in hospital after bus carrying students from Loreto College in Ballarat hit a truck and rolled down an embankment

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Passengers on a school bus have miraculously" survived crashing down an embankment after their vehicle was hit from behind by a truck on a highway west of Melbourne, police say.

The bus was slowing down to avoid an earlier crash when it was hit, leading to two teenage girls and two adults being seriously injured.