SUMMERFIELD, NC : A school bus crash on Thursday, August 31, 2017
Summerfield, North Carolina
A school bus crash was reported in Summerfield Thursday afternoon at U.S. 220 and N.C. 150.
Three vehicles were involved — a pickup truck, a Jeep and the bus.
According to Highway Patrol Master Trooper Brandon Baker, the bus was on N.C. 150 waiting to make a left turn onto U.S. 220 at a blinking caution light.
A Jeep Cherokee traveling north on U.S. 220 was hit as it was turning onto N.C. 150 by a silver pickup truck traveling south on U.S. 220. The impact pushed the Jeep into the bus.
The pickup truck driver was taken to the hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.
No one on the bus was injured.
The bus involved in the accident served Summerfield Elementary School. Thirty-eight kids were on board at the time of the accident.
The kids were taken home by another school bus that came to the scene.
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School bus crash reported in Summerfield