Nine Hurt After School Bus Overturns in Calif.

OCEANSIDE, Calif. --

Eight students and one adult were injured on Wednesday after the school bus they were riding in collided with a car in Oceanside.

On the busy El Camino Real, Betty Hoke was pulling out of the Laguna Vista Mobile Home Park and she said it happened so fast.

“I never saw the bus,” said Hoke. “I never saw that thing and it was right up on me just like that.”

Judy Morris said she witnessed the collision.

“And I heard this big huge bang. It was terrible. It was absolutely terrible,” said Morris. “I feared for them. I didn’t know what was going on inside that school bus.”

Inside the bus were 23 students and a driver. The students were from El Camino High School on their way to San Luis Rey Elementary School to participate in a tutoring program.

Students escaped through the rear emergency door and hatches on the roof.

Hoke was bruised and shaken but was comforted by early reports of less than serious injuries to the children.

“I think the children are probably ok, but as far as that bus, I never even saw him,” she said. “He just came out of nowhere.”

No one has been charged yet, and California Highway patrol took measurements to figure out how fast each vehicle was going.

One student who complained of numbness was taken by helicopter to Scripps Hospital in La Jolla. The others, including the driver, were taken to Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside.

None were suffering anything more serious than broken bones.

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