GWENT Police has charged a man in relation to a road traffic collision involving a school minibus outside Cross Ash Primary School in April.

The 59-year-old man has been charged with driving whilst being unfit through drugs and driving without due care and attention and is due to appear before Caerphilly Magistrates next month.

As previously reported in the Chronicle, 12 schoolchildren narrowly escaped serious injury when the minibus they were travelling in overturned near Cross Ash School on the morning of Tuesday, April 12.

None of the children were seriously injured but one child was taken to hospital as a precaution after suffering an arm injury.

A number of emergency vehicles including one rapid response unit, two ambulances, one senior paramedic officer and a BASICS doctor raced to the scene of the accident which occurred near a sharp bend at Groesonen Road in Cross Ash.