School bus driver had 'medical issue' behind wheel before crash killed girl

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A school bus driver suffered "medical issues" before he died in a horror crash on a motorway, which also took the life of a teenage girl.Stephen Shrimpton was driving a coach of more than 50 school children when it plowed into the central reservation on the M53 on Friday, September 29.

A 14-year-old girl also died in the crash and 17 other passengers were rushed to hospital. Stephen's sister-in-law, Emily, said he had left behind a widow in her 30s and two children aged eight and four.

The family have since launched a GoFundMe to pay for his funeral, reports the Mirror.Emily wrote: "I’m raising some funds for my brother-in-law's funeral.

He tragically died in an accident on the M53 on the morning of the 29th of September, after suffering medical issues at the wheel while driving students to school."He’s sadly left behind my sister who’s now a widow in her early thirties, and unfortunately a single mum alongside his much loved two young children, only 8 and 4, who are going to grow up without their beloved father." A huge emergency services response rushed to the scene in Wirral, Merseyside, just after 8am on Friday, with a major incident declared.There were flowers left outside West Kirby Grammar School, the school where a number of the children on the bus were pupils.It is understood other students on the coach were travelling to Calday Grange Grammar School.