Microbus carrying 24 passengers overturns after swerving left to avoid a pothole and veering off the road; two passengers transported to hospital in Shibecha.

In this accident, two passengers were injured and taken to the hospital, but their lives are not in danger.

According to police, the bus was carrying 23 people who had come from outside the prefecture to participate in a trail running event and was on its way to Nakashibetsu Airport.

The driver noticed a pothole on the road and swerved to the left to avoid it, but the vehicle went off the road and overturned.

Police are investigating the circumstances at the time of the incident.