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Kentucky School Bus Crash Injures 20 Children

According to Kentucky State Police, up to 20 children were injured after their school bus ran off the road and came to rest in a ditch in Pike County on Thursday morning, March 26, 2009.

The Kentucky bus accident occurred at approximately 8:00 AM on Route 1499.  Police officers who were at the scene of the crash said the bus was approaching a coal truck coming in the other direction.  The bus driver moved to the far right of the road to give the truck the room it needed to get by.

The bus driver appeared to have gone too far to the right and the wheels of the bus went off the side of the road.  As a result, the bus rode along the ditch with its right side scraping the side of a rock wall for about 175 yards before it came to a stop.

There were between 60 to 70 students from elementary to high school age on the bus at the time of the crash.  State police said that 8 to 10 students were taken to the hospital by ambulance from the crash scene and up to 10 students were taken by private vehicles to the hospital as a precautionary measure.

According to police at the scene, none of the children’s injuries were life-threatening and most were believed to have been minor. 

Police are still investigating the bus accident, but believe that weather conditions could have been a contributing factor in the crash.

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