2 students and their bus driver suffer minor injuries, taken to hospital, after their bus overturns avoiding deer on U.S. Route 52 near Mendota.

A school bus swerving to avoid hitting a pair of deer has skidded off a road in rural LaSalle County and tipped onto its side, injuring the driver and two children. Sandwich School District 430 Superintendent said the bus was taking children to Lighted Way, a school for students with special needs in LaSalle. He says the driver swerved to avoid hitting two deer on U.S. Route 52 around 8 a.m. Friday. The bus skidded on loose gravel and toppled onto its side in a ditch. Schmitt says two children and the driver were taken to Mendota Community Hospital with minor injuries. He says the children have since been released.