A school bus crashed into a tow truck on a Pennsylvania road Wednesday, leaving 49 children and two adults hospitalized.
The bus was carrying 54 students in kindergarten through eighth grade to their second day of classes at Bear Creek Community Charter School in Wilkes-Barre when the crash happened around 8:10 a.m. on Route 115 in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania State Police said at a news conference, reported WOLF.
As of Wednesday afternoon, four of the 49 children hospitalized were still being treated for moderate injuries, Bear Creek CEO Jim Smith told The Post.
The bus driver, Suzanne Ent, 53, and the tow truck driver, Edward Steinmann, 28, were also hospitalized with moderate injuries, state police Capt. Patrick Dougherty said in an early morning press release.
Students are tested on the spot. Some were released to their parents, while others were taken by ambulance to Geisinger Wyoming Valley hospital, Smith explained in a community bulletin shared with The Post.
Another group of students was also taken to the same hospital on a second school bus with a state police escort, he added.
Two drivers were hospitalized after a crash between a school bus and a tow truck in Luzerne County.WNEP
Images from the crash site show both a large school bus and a tow truck with significant front-end damage.
The children’s parents have all been notified, Dougherty said.
“At this time it is believed that the operator of the tow truck had a medical problem” which caused him to cross into traffic from the front during the accident, he explained.
Forty-nine children were taken to the hospital following the accident.WNEP
The wreck was reported shortly after 8 a.m., state police said.WNEP
“Today is a day that none of us want to experience, and never want to experience again. But there are lessons to be learned, and we must be prepared in the event of future calamities,” Smith’s bulletin read.
“I look forward to the results of the ongoing investigation,” Smith said at the scene.
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