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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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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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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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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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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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Thursday, March 6, 2014Area:
Charlotte, NCA Charlotte student was taken to the hospital after a wreck involving a school bus Friday afternoon.
The accident happened just before 3:30 p.m. near the intersection of Shamrock Drive and Crestmont Drive in east Charlotte.
Police stated that the wreck involved a school bus from Harding High School and another vehicle. One person was pinned in the other vehicle, and is expected to be okay.
One student was riding the bus at the time of the accident. That student was taken to the hospital. Their condition has not been released.
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Thursday, March 6, 2014Area:
Denver, COA school bus was involved in a traffic accident Friday morning in Douglas County.
No children were on the bus at the time, said a Colorado State Patrol spokesman.
A minivan and the bus were involved in a collision around 9 a.m. on U.S. Highway 85 between Sedalia and Happy Canyon Road. Two people for the van were taken to Littleton Adventist Hospital.
Further details on their injuries were not available.
Highway 85 was closed in both directions by the incident.
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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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Monday, March 3, 2014Area:
New Orleans, LATwo buses full of band members crashed into each other on their way to the parades this morning, according to an official with New Orleans Emergency Medical Services.
Three students suffered non life-threatening injuries and were transported to Children's Hospital of New Orleans, said a spokeswoman for New Orleans EMS. The three students were from Martin Behrman Charter School, according to NBC affiliate WDSU.
The buses, one of which appeared to suffer heavy damage to its engine block, were headed westbound on Interstate 10 near the Claiborne Avenue exit when they crashed at about 8:01 p.m.
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Monday, March 3, 2014Area:
Charlotte, NCA school bus full of elementary school children was hit by a car in Rowan County Tuesday morning.
The crash was reported around 9:45 a.m. on Woodleaf Road in Rowan County just outside of Salisbury near W. Ridge Road.
The school bus was bringing back 28 students from Woodleaf Elementary School who had gone to see a play at the Norvell Theater in downtown Salisbury.
A car crossed the center line of the road hitting the bus head-on. A second bus full of students was behind the first bus, but it was not involved in the accident.