Staten Island, NY : Seven passengers injured after school bus crashed into a divider on the Staten Island Expressway on Wednesday afternoon, April 13, 2016

Seven passengers were injured after the school bus they were traveling on crashed into a divider on the Staten Island Expressway Wednesday afternoon, according to a spokesman for the FDNY.

At approximately 5:21 p.m., firefighters and EMS responded to a call that a yellow school bus had veered into a concrete dividing wall while heading towards the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, said the spokesman.

According to the spokesman, seven passengers suffered minor injuries; four were then transported to Staten Island University Hospital, Ocean Breeze, in stable condition.

A spokesman for the Jofaz Transportation company, located in Brooklyn, said the bus was transporting adult workers back to the borough, and that there were no minors in the vehicle during the wreck.

Police are still investigating the cause of the crash, said an NYPD spokesman.

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Staten Island, NY : Seven passengers injured after school bus crashed into a divider on the Staten Island Expressway on Wednesday afternoon, April 13, 2016