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Thursday, May 8, 2014Area:
Raleigh-Durham, NCA high school teacher died Friday when his car smashed into a school bus on U.S. 401 South near Lillington.
State troopers said William Neil Parnell III, a teacher at South View High School in Hope Mills, was following the bus when the driver stopped near Stockyard Road to let off the last student from Lillington-Shawtown Elementary School.
Troopers said Parnell did not brake and plowed into the back of the bus.
Parnell, who was heading home to Lillington from work, died at the scene. No passengers were in the car.
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Monday, April 7, 2014Area:
Raleigh-Durham, NCA Wake County school bus was involved in an accident at Louisburg Road and Fox Road just south of I-540 in Raleigh Tuesday afternoon.
Pictures from the scene appeared to show a Dodge pickup truck rear-ended the bus.
In all, six people were injured -- five students and the bus driver. Four were taken to WakeMed North and two to WakeMed pediatrics. All injuries appeared to be minor.
School officials said there were about 24 students from Wake Early College of Health and Sciences High School on board.
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Tuesday, April 1, 2014Area:
Jacksonville, FLThe Florida Highway Patrol is searching for a vehicle that hit a school bus on the Westside on Wednesday morning, then drove away.
At 6:40 a.m. a school bus was rear-ended by an unknown Jeep Wrangler, according to FHP. The vehicle then fled the scene after the crash.
Thirty-five students were on the bus at the time of the crash, but no injuries were reported according to FHP.
The crash happened in the northbound lanes of Blanding Boulevard at Longchamp Road. The crash did not block any lanes of traffic, according to FHP.
FHP is investigating the crash as a hit-and-run.
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Tuesday, April 1, 2014Area:
Jacksonville, FLThe Florida Highway Patrol is investigating a bus crash on the Westside, after a school bus rear-ended an SUV Wednesday morning.
According to a FHP report, the school bus was traveling eastbound on 103rd Street at Old Middleburg Road, when the traffic in front of the bus stopped. The bus failed to stop and rear-ended a GMC Envoy.
The crash happened at 8:15 a.m. and there were no students on the bus at the time, according to FHP.
A spokesperson with Duval County Public Schools said the bus was assigned to Jefferson Davis Middle School and no injuries were reported.
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Thursday, March 20, 2014Area:
Philadelphia, PAPolice are investigating a Wilbur school bus accident in New Castle County.
Around 8:15 a.m. Thursday morning, a vehicle rear-ended the bus as it was getting ready to turn on to Wrangle Hill Road.
Officials say 45 students were on the bus and 14 of them were sent to Christiana Hospital. The bus driver, Nichole Lambert, 26, and the driver of the other vehicle Madison Brooks, 23, were also taken for treatment.
They were all treated and released.
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Thursday, March 20, 2014Area:
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FLA Polk County school bus accident sent 12 Crystal Lake Middle School students to the hospital Thursday morning with minor injuries.
It happened around 8:10 a.m. at the intersection of South Crystal Lake Drive and US 98 in Lakeland.
Alicia Delgado said it wasn't the collision that sent her running to the scene Thursday morning, but what she heard shortly after.
Authorities say a Subaru was two cars behind a school bus carrying 30 Crystal Lake Middle School students.
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Thursday, March 13, 2014Area:
Louisville, KYEleven students on the bus were transported to Jewish Hospital South and released after a wreck that occured at about 6:30 a.m. at Preston Highway and Belmont Road just east of Fort Knox. An 86-year-old man drove into the back of a school bus that had stop to pick up students in Bullitt County. The man later died of his injuries. None of the students suffered serious injuries.
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Thursday, March 6, 2014A Friday morning wreck involving a van and a Quitman school bus on a Cleburne County state highway ended with a woman's death, according to an Arkansas State Police preliminary crash report. The school bus was at a stop on Arkansas 124 east of Quitman picking up a fourth child when a Kia van struck the back end of the bus, ultimately killing the van's driver, Martha Bearden, 54, of Guy, the report states. The road conditions were clear and dry, according to the report. The report also lists a female passenger of the van — Phoenix Bearden of Guy, whose age is not provided — as injured.
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014Area:
Madison, WIKenosha County authorities have identified the driver of a Toyota Camry who crashed into a school bus Thursday as 35-year-old Shawn Hudon of the Paddock Lake, according to a release.
Hudon remains at Froedtert Hospital in critical but stable condition. He was taken to the hospital via Flight for Life with serious injuries after rear-ending the bus as it was letting off a student on Highway 45 in the Town of Paris around 3:40 p.m.
The crash is still under investigation.
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Tuesday, February 11, 2014Area:
Philadelphia, PAA school bus carrying children and two other vehicles collided this morning in Northeast Philadelphia.
The yellow bus, white van and red SUV were involved in the chain-reaction wreck at Rhawn and Eastwood Streets around 9:45 a.m.
At least nine injuries were reported including children on the bus.
Philadelphia Police accident investigators desribced the injuries as mostly bumps and bruises.
As SkyForce10 hovered overhead a short time later it appeared that the bus, operated by Philly-based Leahy Transportation, hit the back of the van, which hit the back of the SUV.