School Bus Hits Students in Pa.

FAIRLESS HILLS, Pa. – A school bus hit several students as they were leaving a high school, then crashed into a retaining wall, sending about a dozen children to hospitals, officials said.

Falls Township Public Safety Director Neil Harkins said 11 to 15 Pennsbury High School students were taken to hospitals. Some had been walking near the school and some had been on the bus, he said.

The extent of the injuries was not immediately known.

“I know that they were all visibly injured, and taken to the hospital in ambulances,” Harkins said.

Harkins said the bus driver did not appear to have suffered any medical problems and was at the scene afterward, preparing to talk to police. The driver works for the school district, he said.

The bus crashed at about 2:20 p.m. as the students were being dismissed from the school, about 20 miles northeast of Philadelphia. Harkins did not immediately know if the students struck had been waiting for the bus.

The bus wound up against the wall, its front end smashed.

In New York City, another school bus overturned Friday morning as it was taking students to class, injuring five children and two adults, police and fire department officials there said. Officials said most of the injuries in that case appeared to be minor.