HUDSON, WI : 6 Wisconsin middle school students, 2 adults injured in school bus crash on Thursday, 25th April 2024

Six middle school students and two adults were injured in a school bus crash near Hudson on Thursday morning.

WKBT reports that the students from DeLong Middle School in Eau Claire were heading to the Orpheum Theater in Minneapolis for a field trip when, around 10:40 a.m., one of the two buses crashed on the St. Croix River Bridge.

The Wisconsin State Patrol says there were two lanes of traffic closed for construction, and two left lanes open for westbound traffic. A car stopped to allow another car to merge, slowing traffic. Then the bus rear-ended an empty CMV tanker trailer.

Two of the six injured students were sent to the hospital; one had a cut lip and the other was sent for precautionary measures. A chaperone and the bus driver were also injured.

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