A BUS on its way to Bohunt School in Liphook crashed into a tree at the junction of A287 Sturt Road and Camelsdale Road in Haslemere last Monday morning.

The Richardsons Travel driver swerved to avoid a car pulling out at about 7.40am, a company spokesman said. There were no passengers aboard and the driver escaped with minor injuries.

The spokesman said: “The driver went to avoid a car and seeing there was a child in the vehicle, swerved and in doing so hit a tree. He was shaken but unhurt and was back at the depot ready for work the same day.”

Meanwhile, a bus reduced traffic to a trickle for most of Sunday after getting stuck on Grayswood’s village green for six hours.

The driver of a 70 Stagecoach bus from Midhurst to Haslemere took a wrong turn down Lower Road at 2pm. All efforts to shift it failed and traffic was reduced to a single lane until the bus was eventually towed away at 8pm.

A Stagecoach spokesman said: “All efforts were made to recover the vehicle as quickly as possible and we apologise for any inconvenience caused.”

* The northbound bore in the A3 Hindhead Tunnel was closed during rush-hour on Monday morning, after a crash involving a car and a motorcycle, near Thursley, causing long tailbacks as far as Liphook. The motorcyclist was taken to St George’s Hospital, in Tooting, South London. The tunnel was closed as paramedics treated the victim at the roadside and re-opened at 10.30am.