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School Bus Accidents
05/1308 MRC/AP
Police spokesman Phil
Russell said at least 40 people, including several
students, were taken to area hospitals to get checked out
after the accident on Interstate 65.
Russell said a car
pulling out of an emergency lane set off a chain-reaction
collision.
The driver of a pickup
stopped to avoid the car and was hit by a school bus from
Fort Knox. Then the bus from Nelson County hit the other
school bus.
Russell said no charges
would be filed and that the driver of the car probably
didn't know a collision occurred.
The buses from Nelson and
Hardin counties were taking students to watch Louisville
and Richmond play a doubleheader at Slugger Field.
One bus was filled with
44 first-grade students and their 14 chaperones from
Kingsolver Elementary School at Fort Knox, according to
Superintendent Todd Curkendall of the Fort Knox Community
School District.
No one was seriously
injured. The students were taken as a precaution to five
different Louisville-area hospitals.
The other bus had
students from Old Kentucky Home Middle School in
Bardstown, according to Nelson County Superintendent
Janice Lantz.
She said about 70 people
were on the bus and 14 were taken to hospitals for
examination. She said they were all treated and released,
except the bus driver, who was being treated for a
possible broken leg.
In an unrelated wreck, a
bus tipped on its side and several students were taken to
a hospital for observation after a bus tipped on its side
near Lebanon Junction just after 3:30 p.m. EDT Monday.
Eric Farris, an attorney
and spokesman for the Bullitt County School Board, said
school officials are investigating why the bus from
Lebanon Junction Elementary School turned over near
Collings Hill and Kentucky 61.
Farris was unsure how
many students were on the bus but said the vehicle holds
55 at capacity.
Several students were
taken to Jewish Hospital Medical Center South in
Shepherdsville. Farris said no one appeared to be
seriously injured.
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