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.