A bus carrying school pupils crashed outside Edgware tube station on Tuesday afternoon.

The route 688 bus was taking JFS students home from school when it crashed on Station Road at around 4.30pm.

A wheel fell off the back of the bus and hit a van at the junction of Station Road and Manor Park Crescent.

It is thought that no-one was injured.

The bus blocked Station Road for much of the afternoon and early evening while mechanics waited for traffic police to arrive on the scene.

Police arrived after around an hour and a half to direct traffic around the stranded vehicle.