A driver and a passenger have been seriously injured after two buses were involved in a head-on crash in Edinburgh.

The vehicles collided shortly before 9am on Ferry Road, near the junction with Craighall Road in the north of the city.

Pictures on social media showed a Lothian Bus had collided with a private coach.

Ferry Road was closed between 9am and 11am.

A woman who was a passenger on the Lothian Bus has been taken to hospital suffering from serious injuries.

The male driver of the coach was also seriously injured.

Lothian Buses said the number 14 and 21 services would be diverted.

A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: "The driver of the coach and a female passenger on the Lothian Bus have been taken to hospital."