Charges are pending against the bus driver that struck two teenage girls crossing a west Edmonton road on Friday afternoon.

Edmonton police responded to the Hamptons neighbourhood after a bus driver struck two 13-year-old girls that were crossing Hemingway Road at 206 Street at approximately 4 p.m.

The two girls were taken to hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries, EPS said.

The 44-year-old driver and his passengers were not injured.

Charges are pending against the driver, EPS said.

The road has reopened to traffic.

Anyone with information about the crash is asked to call EPS at 780-423-4567 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.