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One child injured after the school bus driver is distracted, causing the bus to leave the roadway and overturn near Riggins, Idaho

Date: 
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Area: 
Spokane, WA
Idaho state police say one child was injured in a school bus crash around the Idaho County town of Riggins. The one-vehicle crash occurred around 5:30 p.m. Thursday on a road in the area, located about 125 miles south of Coeur d'Alene. Police say 66-year-old driver Larry C. Barnard was carrying seven children on his bus when he was distracted by one of them. The vehicle drifted left and as the driver corrected to the right, tires went off the road and the bus eventually rolled on its right side.

Over 20 school students suffer minor injuries after their school bus leaves the roadway and crashes into a tree in Jonesville, South Carolina

Date: 
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Area: 
Greenville-Spartanburg, SC-Asheville, NC-Anderson, SC
An accident involving a school bus in Union County sent more than 20 students to the hospital with minor injuries, according to troopers and emergency responders. The accident happened at 7:27 a.m. at Whitlock Lake Road and Morris Farm Road near Jonesville, troopers said. Troopers said the 1988 Freightliner school bus was traveling south on Whitlock Lake Road, when it ran off the right side of road and hit a tree. Union County Emergency Services director Ronnie Robertson confirmed six students were taken to Wallace Thompson Hospital in Union.