A COACH-load of students on their way to school narrowly escaped injury when the bus they were travelling in collided with a car this morning.

The accident happened about 8.30am on the A3057 between Romsey and Stockbridge.

The students, aged 11-16, were heading to Test Valley School in Stockbridge when their coach collided with a Puegeot 106.

The driver of the 106 was taken to Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and the road was closed between the White Hart pub and King's Somborne.

In a separate incident this morning, the Environment Agency was called to Longparish, near Andover, just before 8am after a tanker carrying 25,000 litres of liquid animal feed overturned.