Several children suffered minor injuries in a crash between a school bus and a car in west Winnipeg on Tuesday morning.

Emergency crews were called to Hamilton Avenue and Dohaney Crescent, near the west Perimeter Highway, just after 8:30 a.m.

The St. James Assiniboia School Division says a Vital Transit bus was transporting students to École Bannatyne School and École Golden Gate Middle School at the time of the collision.

Police and emergency crews respond to his crash between a school bus and a car at Hamilton Avenue and Dohaney Crescent on Tuesday morning. (Jeff Stapleton/CBC) Ron Jeffrey, who lives nearby, says the school bus was at the corner when the car sped down Hamilton Avenue and slammed into the bus.

"They carried a few kids out; they were all sort of very, very traumatized and crying and that sort of thing," he said. "I just hope everyone's all right."

Winnipeg police said three children were taken to hospital. Jeffrey said he saw one child being put into an ambulance with a neck brace on.

In a news release, the school division said "several students" were taken to hospital with "what appeared to be minor injuries." It had no update on their condition as of noon.

"People just drive too fast around here," Jeffrey said.

"My son catches the bus up here … and people just every morning they're just scooting past. I sometimes yell out, 'Slow down, you idiot,' but no one ever listens to me."