The Manchester Parish Council has launched an appeal for blood for several victims now hospitalised who were involved in a motor vehicle crash on the Pen Hill main Road yesterday morning.

Forty people including several students were injured when two minibuses collided on the main road.

In a release issued yesterday afternoon, the council appealed to donors to give blood at the Mandeville Hospital.

The police believe the crash was the result of improper overtaking by one of the bus drivers.