A eyewitness has told STV News of the moment he opened his door to see a bus crashed into his garden.

Mark Attwood, who lives around 100 yards from the crash site, said he awoke to "a rumbling".

He added: "I woke up this morning hearing a generator running and I thought the power company had come to restore the power, which went off last night about 10pm.

"I got up and I heard a knock at the door around 5.50am. The gentleman asked me to take in two children.

"There had been an accident up the road and the bus had come off the road, and would we take some children in to keep them warm. I saw that the bus had fallen down the embankment into the burn.

"It is quite a steep drop, around a 20 feet. It looks like it has slid off the edge on a bad bend. It was really heavy snow here last night. We took the children in but we had no power.

"The children were visibly shocked and shaken, tearful. They needed warmth, because obviously they were cold from the weather. We just tried to make sure they were safe and warm.

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"My children catch a very similar bus in the area and that is the first thing that goes through your mind. My children could have been on there. It is very shocking."

Mark said that there was at least three inches of snow on the ground at the time of the accident.