Saturday, February 7, 2015

THE 20 ELEMENTARY STUDENTS WHO WERE SENT TO HOSPITALS FRIDAY MORNING AFTER A TRACTOR-TRAILER REAR-ENDED THEIR JCPS SCHOOL BUS HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED




 

THE 20 ELEMENTARY STUDENTS WHO WERE SENT TO HOSPITALS FRIDAY MORNING AFTER A TRACTOR-TRAILER REAR-ENDED THEIR JCPS SCHOOL BUS HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED








February 6, 2015







Louisville, KY




The 20 elementary students who were sent to hospitals Friday morning after a tractor-trailer rear-ended their JCPS school bus have been discharged, JCPS spokeswoman Mandy Simpson said.




Simpson on Friday afternoon updated the number of students who had been sent to the hospital to 20; the bus driver was also taken to the hospital following the crash, and has also been discharged.




Bus 0842 was carrying 36 students when it was struck from behind by the 18-wheeler shortly after 8 a.m.. The bus was pushed into an unmarked Shively police car near the intersection of Cane Run Road and Clarinet. All of the vehicles were heading south on Cane Run Road.




Most of the students were taken to Kosair Children's Hospital, while a few other students and the bus driver were taken to Sts. Mary & Elizabeth Hospital for treatment and observation, police said.




The bus was on its way to the Lee Lane Depot, where the students were to transfer and head to several different elementary schools, Simpson said. The students from bus 0842 were heading to Atkinson, Foster, Jacob, King, Lincoln, Mill Creek, Roosevelt-Perry, Shelby, Wheatley, Brandeis and Young, she said.