Kingscliff mum claims Surfside Buslines left Mount St. Patrick students on roadside as heavy rain impacted the Tweed

A mum claims her son and other kids were left by a roadway in pouring rain last week - but a bus company is disputing suggestions it did anything wrong.

A MUM claims her son and other children were let off a school bus and left to their own devices when their school suddenly closed because of last week’s big wet.

But Surfside Buslines believes its driver did everything by the book and could not forcibly stop students leaving the bus when they heard school had been cancelled.

The students were allegedly told they could disembark between Kingscliff and Murwillumbah last Thursday when they heard Mount St Patrick College was closed as flash flooding battered the Tweed.

Kingscliff mum Lana Morgan said her 12-year-old son and the other children were told they could exit the vehicle unless they wanted to travel to a stop in Murwillumbah, south of Tweed Heads.

It's alleged the students were left on the side of the road in torrential rain. Picture: Supplied

Ms Morgan said she could not believe her son was left without any supervision and it was fortunate he had a mobile phone to ring her to pick him up.

“I called (Surfside) to check if they were running and they said yes they were,” she said.

“While the school bus was in transit, so they’ve been on board for like 10 minutes, there was a text message from the school saying they were closed.

“But the bus was continuing on to Murwillumbah and they just said to the kids ‘OK, school’s cancelled, if you don’t want to go to Murwillumbah just get out here’.

“They left them near a farm. It was torrential rain. The poor kids were saturated to the bone.”

A photograph sent to the Bulletin shows students waiting in the rain.

Ms Morgan, whose claims were backed by her father Joseph Jurin, said the situation was “bizarre” and she was “furious”.

A car drives through floodwaters on Tweed Valley Way near Tumbulgum in the Tweed. Picture: Jason O'Brien

A student told the Bulletin: “It was a bit strange, like confusing. They got everyone off, then it started raining, so they got everyone back on and said unless you want to go to Murwillumbah, or your parents are picking you up, just get off.”

It’s understood Surfside disputes the claims, saying students wilfully left the bus of their own accord and were not in any danger. A formal response was expected.