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Police say it is a miracle no-one was injured as he drove the wrong way for ten miles.

The pupils had been going on a school art trip when their minibus was involved in the crash with a bin lorry.

Police are investigating whether or not the 21 children involved in a fatal minibus crash while on a school trip were wearing seat belts.

Central Motorway Police Group said earlier it was unable to confirm which was the case.

Emergency services were called at 09:00 to the scene in Castle Vale, Birmingham, where a 14-year-old pupil of John Taylor High School in Barton-under-Needwood, Staffordshire, died.

Another pupil was taken to hospital with superficial injuries.

They were accompanied by three teachers.

It's more than eight hours since emergency services were called to a crash between a minibus and a bin lorry in which a 14-year-old girl on a school trip was killed.

The teenager, from John Taylor High School in Barton-under-Needwood, was declared dead at the scene of the crash in Castle Vale, Birmingham.

Here's the background in video:

And police have been sharing information about the forensics investigation of the circumstances surrounding the fatal collision.

Elizabeth Glinka
BBC Midlands Today

I'm outside John Taylor High School in Barton-under-Needwood, Staffordshire, where we've seen children coming out of the school with their parents, clearly very distressed by what's happened.

It's a school which today lost a student when a minibus of pupils on a trip crashed with a bin lorry. It was a 14-year-old girl who died.

This is a closeknit community, a rural community, and there's a profound sense of shock.

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We know the rest of the children were brought back to the school after the crash and since then have been collected by parents.

A detailed forensic examination is under way to try to piece together how a school minibus crashed with a bin lorry, killing a 14-year-old girl.

Twenty-one pupils and three teachers from John Taylor High School in Staffordshire were on a school trip when the collision happened in Castle Vale, Birmingham.

Officers have been carrying out skid tests and taking distance markings on a dual carriageway.

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A Birmingham City Council bin lorry was involved in the crash with a minibus of students in which a girl, 14, was killed.

The leader of the authority, Councillor John Clancy, tweeted he , externalwas "shocked and saddened" by her death.

She was a pupil at John Taylor High School in Barton-under-Needwood, Staffordshire.

Mike Donoghue, the principal of Staffordshire's John Taylor High School which has today lost a pupil in a minibus crash, has written to all parents about the grief their children might be feeling.

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West Midlands Fire Service said it attended within four minutes the scene of a crash in which a 14-year-old girl died when a school bus collided with a bin lorry.

The service said crews from Erdington and Ward End fire stations assisted colleagues from the ambulance service.

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Area Commander Steve Taylor said: "This is a sad and tragic incident and our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with the family, teachers, pupils and all those who have been affected by this incident."

Officers carry out skid tests where a minibus and bin lorry crashed on the A38 in Birmingham.

Supt Dean Hatton, head of the Central Motorway Police Group, has been addressing the media in the wake of what he called "an extremely tragic incident".

Speaking to reporters at the scene, he said: "We've been in close contact with our colleagues at Staffordshire Police and been liaising with the headteacher at the John Taylor High School and all relevant support is being provided by the school and by our colleagues."

Asked if the pupils were wearing seat-belts, he replied: "That will be part of our investigation and, at the moment, I can't confirm either way whether or not pupils were wearing seat-belts or otherwise."

He said he would not speculate on the cause of the collision.

Birmingham City Council has issued a statement following a fatal collision between one of its bin lorries and a minibus of pupils on a school trip in which a teenager died.

A 14-year-old girl from Staffordshire died in the crash in Kingsbury Road, Castle Vale, Birmingham to which emergency services were called at 09:00.

The statement from the authority said: "We are deeply saddened by the death of a teenage girl this morning on Kingsbury Road and our thoughts are with her family, friends and all those affected.

"As a City Council trade waste vehicle was involved in the incident we will be fully co-operating with all investigations.

"We ask for drivers’ patience while we work with the police to deal with the highways implications in this very sensitive situation."

Monica Rimmer
Journalist, BBC Online

A 14-year-old girl has died in a crash involving a minibus of 21 pupils going on a school trip.

Here's a reminder of the events:

• Emergency services are called to Kingsbury Road in Castle Vale, Birmingham, at about 09:00
• West Midlands Police say the road is closed and local diversions in place
• West Midlands Ambulance Service says it is in attendance at a serious road traffic accident

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• John Taylor High School in Barton-under-Needwood, Staffordshire, says on its website, external some of its students have been involved in a crash

• The ambulance service confirms a teenage girl has died and there are 26 patients
• West Midlands Police says the girl is 14
• The force adds the crash is between a minibus and a bin lorry and confirms the school's pupils are involved
• The school community is said to be "devastated"

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The pupils, from John Taylor High School in Barton-under-Needwood, were going on an art trip.

Lichfield MP Michael Fabricant has tweeted that he is heartbroken over the death of a teenager killed in a crash between a school minibus and bin lorry.

He also said, external the Staffordshire school which the girl attended - John Taylor High School in Barton-under-Needwood - was "outstanding".

Emergency crews were called to the scene in Castle Vale, Birmingham, at 09:00.

The pupils - 21 in all, plus three teachers - were on a school trip.

A 14-year-old girl has died after a school bus crashed with a bin lorry in Kingsbury Road, Castle Vale, Birmingham.

Machine worker Stephen Jones, 38, who works near the scene, said: "I heard a big bang at 9am this morning - a massive bang.

"I came over and had a look and the police were here with the sirens and they'd shut [the road].

"I saw the coroner's ambulance and I heard a girl had passed away."

He added: "There are a lot of accidents here all the time, it's a busy road."

According to the calendar of the school, external that has today lost a pupil in a crash in Birmingham, this evening was the date for its prom.

The girl - a 14-year-old student at Staffordshire's John Taylor High School - was declared dead at the scene in Castle Vale. She was on a school trip with 20 other pupils when a minibus crashed with a bin lorry.

The school's calendar suggests the group was on an arts trip.

A schoolgirl from Staffordshire has died in a crash while on a school trip in Birmingham.

She was 14, attended John Taylor High School in Barton-under-Needwood, Staffordshire, and her family has been informed.

West Midlands Ambulance Service was called at 09:00 to Kingsbury Road in Castle Vale where a mini bus crashed with a bin lorry.

It said it attended 26 patients - the drivers of each vehicle, three teachers, the dead girl and 20 other pupils, one of whom was taken to hospital with "superficial injuries".

Five adults - the teachers and drivers - plus 19 children were discharged from the scene.

The family of a 14-year-old girl who died in a crash between a mini bus and bin lorry in Castle Vale has been informed.

She was among the pupils from John Taylor High School in Barton-under-Needwood, Staffordshire, who were on a trip when the collision happened at about 09:00 on Kingsbury Road.

Superintendent Dean Hatton, head of Central Motorway Police Group, said: "We are also in contact with the school and our colleagues at Staffordshire Police, who are understandably devastated as this occurred while their students were on a school trip."

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