A high school pupil has been injured after a school bus crashed into a pickup truck on a rural Aberdeenshire road.

Emergency services were called out to the crash shortly after 4pm on Monday when a contracted school bus carrying Ellon Academy pupils crashed with a Toyota Hilux on the A948 Ellon to Auchnagatt road.

The driver of the bus sustained a minor head injury and a pupil also suffered a minor injury in the smash.

Both were treated by paramedics at the scene and did not require hospital treatment.

A spokeswoman for Aberdeenshire Council said that all children had been picked up by their parents or taken home on an alternative bus.