Dover,DE : Students among 30 injured in I-95 bus crash in Harford County on may, Monday 15th 2017

An eighth-grade student and an adult were critically injured Monday when the bus they were riding from Philadelphia to Washington was clipped by a passing car on Interstate 95 in Harford County and overturned on the highway.

The collision sent the charter bus — carrying 26 students, two teachers and a parent on a class trip from the Charles W. Henry School in Philadelphia — veering off the highway. It struck an embankment and a tree before landing on its left side north of the Havre de Grace exit shortly before 9:30 a.m., Maryland State Police said.

One child was airlifted to Nemours duPont Hospital in Delaware and a woman was flown to Maryland Shock Trauma in Baltimore. Other passengers were taken by ambulance to area hospitals with lesser injuries.

Interstate 95 — which carries some 85,000 vehicles a day through the area — was closed in both directions for hours as first responders tended to the injured. Traffic backed up for miles in both directions.

The crash rattled students and weighed heavily on the paramedics tending to them, said Peter Quackenbush, chief of the Havre de Grace Ambulance Corps. Students with the least serious injuries were ushered to the side of the road to shield their view of the others, he said.

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Students among 30 injured in I-95 bus crash in Harford County