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Maine State Police report that Interstate 95 between Newport and Bangor near Etna is shut down for a crash involving at least 40 vehicles, including many cars, a school bus, and a tractor trailer. Both northbound and southbound lanes are shut down, and motorists should try to exit in Etna and Newport in order to avoid the accident zone. At least a half dozen people were injured in the collisions that began at around 7:30 a.m, but the severity of those injuries is unknown.

7 students, drivers, taken to hospitals after school bus and tractor-trailer collide on U.S. 70 in Johnston County, North Carolina

Date:

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Area:

Raleigh-Durham, NC

Nine people were taken to three area hospitals Wednesday morning after a school bus and a tractor-trailer collided on U.S. 70 in Johnston County, officials said. The incident happened about 7 a.m. near the highway’s intersection with Uzzle Industrial Drive, officials said. The bus had 13 students on board. Seven students were taken by EMS, along with the drivers of both the bus and truck. The bus, number 63, was transporting students to Smithfield Middle School.

Daniel Robert Cook, 11, killed, 4 other children taken to hospital after school bus and garbage truck crash in Nampa, Idaho

Date:

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Area:

Boise, ID

A child has died and four more are injured after a dump truck and school bus crashed near Deer Flat and Happy Valley roads south of Nampa just before 8 a.m. According to the Canyon County coroner, 11-year-old Daniel Robert Cook from Nampa died at the scene of the crash. The names and conditions of the remaining injured children have not yet been released. Police say two of the four children were transported to St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, while the remaining two more were taken to Saint Alphonsus in Nampa.

Semi hits school bus, injuring six deaf children on Pershing Road and Central Avenue in Stickney, Illinois

Date:

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Area:

Chicago, IL

Six elementary-age children were taken to a hospital as a precaution, after a semi-tractor trailer truck hit a school bus in southwest suburban Stickney on Friday. Stickney police said the call about the crash came in around 7:20 a.m., after a semi and a school bus collided at Pershing Road and Central Avenue. Six students who were on the bus were taken to MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn, but a hospital representative said the children seemed to be fine. She said all of the students appeared to be elementary school age, and were deaf, but she did not know what school they attend.