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Wednesday, March 12, 2014An 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.
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Wednesday, March 12, 2014Area:
Spokane, WAIdaho 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.
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Monday, March 10, 2014Area:
Trenton-NJSix students were injured when a school bus collided with a car in Gloucester Township, New Jersey Tuesday morning.
Police responded around 7:00 a.m. to Berlin Cross Keys Road at the Atlantic City Expressway for a report of a crash involving a school bus.
Arriving officers found that the school bus driver and six students on the bus were injured in the incident.
Five of the injured students and the bus driver were transported to a local hospital for evaluation. All the injured are said to be minor.
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Monday, March 10, 2014Area:
Phoenix, AZA Glendale police officer and a child were each taken to a hospital after the car the child was riding in collided with the Glendale officer’s car Tuesday morning, according to Glendale police.
The officer was responding to another collision on Tuesday near 51st and Northern avenues when the wreck occurred, said a Glendale police spokeswoman.
Glendale officers were in the area directing traffic to avoid a collision that had occurred early Tuesday morning when a Jeep SUV was trying to turn northbound from a private drive on to 51st Avenue at about 7:45 a.m., police said.
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Sunday, March 9, 2014Newport News Police say a two-vehicle crash along Warwick Boulevard Monday night involved both a utility pole and a house.
A white Dodge van and a Volvo were both traveling north on Warwick Blvd. — the van in the right lane and the Volvo in the left — when the van attempted a left turn onto 64th Street and crashed into the Volvo, police said.
The van then collided with a utility pole and the Volvo crashed into a nearby residence.
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Sunday, March 9, 2014Area:
New York, NYNine people were hospitalized, three injured seriously, when a small school bus overturned in Brooklyn Monday afternoon. It happened at Marcy avenue and Halsey street in the Bedford Stuyvesant section, where the bus was reportedly hit by a taxi. Six students were on the bus and they were taken to Kings County Hospital as a precaution. Three adults were transported to area hospitals with serious but non-life threatening injuries. An investigation is underway into the cause of the accident.
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Sunday, March 9, 2014A 7-year-old boy was flown to a trauma center Monday afternoon after being injured in an all-terrain vehicle rollover in Loxahatchee, said a spokesman for Palm Beach County Fire Rescue. The child was flown by Trauma Hawk to St. Mary’s Medical Center, Borroto said. The accident happened a few minutes before 6 p.m. on the 17,700 block of 61st Place North.
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Friday, March 7, 2014Area:
Salt Lake City, UTThe Utah Highway Patrol says a roll over crash happened on Interstate-15 near Parowan Friday afternoon.
A southbound vehicle blew a rear tire and it rolled off the highway. The vehicle came to rest on it's side.
The 36-year-old male driver was uninjured in the crash, but his wife was pinned in the Ford Expedition and she had to be freed by the fire department.
The woman sustained some moderate injuries in the crash, according to a UHP press release.
Three children were also in the car and they were treated and released from a local hospital in Cedar City.
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Friday, March 7, 2014Area:
Austin, TXEleven people were injured after a five-vehicle collision on North Lamar Boulevard at 39 1/2 Street around 3:30 Saturday afternoon.
Several EMS crews responded to the rollover accident. The first reports indicated at least one patient was trapped inside a vehicle.
Additional paramedics responded to 39th Street and Medical Parkway for a report of another patient involved in the accident.
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Friday, March 7, 2014Area:
San Diego, CAA woman died after a collision that closed West San Marcos Boulevard in San Marcos Saturday afternoon, a sheriff’s official said.
A pickup and an Infiniti sedan collided near Discovery Road about 4:20 p.m., a sheriff’s Lt. said.
Two children, an infant and a 6-year-old, were reported to be in one of the vehicles, possibly the woman’s sedan, police said. The older child appeared to have some injury, he said.
The woman died before she could be taken to a hospital.
Deputies closed the boulevard between Las Posas Road and Knights Realm during the investigation.