Eighteen students and a teacher were injured when school bus collided with a jeep and toppled near R.P.S. Junction in Bauddhaloka Mawatha, Colombo 7 this morning, Police said.

They said the bus driver had driven the bus ignoring the color lights and collided with the jeep.

The injured were rushed to the Colombo National Hospital and the bus driver had been arrested.(Sanath Desmond and Siri Mahabellana)