13 Students Injured in Kentucky School Bus Crash
Officials report that a school bus has been involved in a crash on northbound Interstate 65 at the Watterson Expressway.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. --
Thirteen Jefferson County Public Schools students and their bus driver were taken to area hospitals after their bus was rear-ended on Interstate 65 Tuesday morning.
Bus No. 0508 was hit just before 9 a.m. on northbound I-65 near the Watterson Expressway.
Officials said students are doing OK at Kosair Children's Hospital. The bus driver was taken to Jewish Hospital to get checked out
"It looks the tractor-trailer hit the dump truck and the driver said the dump truck hit our school bus," said Jim Engler, assistant director of vehicle maintenance for JCPS.
Seven students heading to Wheatley Elementary were quickly loaded off the bus and onto ambulances.
Nine more students on the bus went to school. Of those, six began complaining of headaches after they got to school. EMS was called and those students were taken to the hospital.
"I think they were probably just crying and I didn't hear anybody really complaining. I think that was just for the preliminary," Engler said.
"We are in the process of accessing those children, making determinations on their injuries. All appear stable at this point," said Kosair Chief Nursing Officer Cis Gruebbel.
WLKY briefly spoke with the driver of the tractor-trailer involved in the accident. He didn't want to talk on camera, but said he was unsure what happened.
He was driving the tanker truck from Indiana. He is a volunteer firefighter and hated that the accident involved kids.
There is no word on the condition of the person driving the dump truck involved in the crash.
School officials say the bus driver wasn't badly hurt.
Copyright 2011 by WLKY.com. ©2011 Hearst Properties Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
