Eight children were injured yesterday in Queens when a police chase ended with a suspect crashing a stolen car into a school bus, police officials said.

Police were chasing the driver of a stolen sports utility vehicle at about 2:30 p.m. when it smashed into the back of a school bus on Douglaston Parkway in the Little Neck section of Queens, police said.

The collision caused the bus to swerve off the road, smash into a tree, and flip over, police said. The bus driver and a school attendant were also injured in the accident, police said.

An officer was hurt during a foot chase involving the suspect, who was arrested and brought to Flushing Hospital with injuries, police said.

The wounded students, between the ages of 10 and 14, were returning home from their private school, the Lowell School in the Flushing section of Queens, police said.

They were rushed to two hospitals, Long Island Jewish Hospital and North Shore Hospital, police said, and were treated for bumps and bruises.

The stolen SUV belongs to an officer, police said. The officer was off-duty when she returned home at about 2 p.m. to find her house burglarized and her vehicle missing.

A patrol car later spotted it being driven on Northern Boulevard, police said.