Tuesday 16 May 2017

Bus carrying 26 kids on DC field trip overturns


A bus carrying dozens of Pennsylvania eighth-graders to Washington, D.C., for a field trip overturned on Interstate 95 in northeastern Maryland on Monday, state police said. Officials said one child and one teacher were seriously injured. The bus carrying 26 children from Charles W. Henry School, three chaperones and the driver overturned at least once on the highway near Havre de Grace, Maryland State Police spokesman Greg Shipley said. One child and one adult were flown to trauma centers in Maryland and Delaware. Others were taken to hospitals by ambulance, police said. No deaths have been reported.
One teacher was flown to the University of Maryland Medical Center's trauma center in Baltimore, but was still going through triage, the University of Maryland Medical System said in a statement. A spokeswoman for the Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Delaware, said a student had been taken there. Neither facility would give information on the patients' injuries or conditions.




The University of Maryland said in a statement that 17 patients were taken to its hospital in Harford County. Nine patients were taken to another of the university's hospitals in Havre de Grace. Two children were taken from a Maryland hospital to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Steven Fountain, an emergency physician at Harford Memorial Hospital, said at a news conference that he did not expect any of the patients to be held overnight. He said many of the patients suffered muscle strains and contusions.
Police in Maryland say a car that tried to pass the bus clipped it, causing it to overturn.
"Werner Coach wishes to express its sorrow and sympathy to those impacted by this accident."

2 comments:

  1. Thank God no casualties

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  2. always scary allowing kids to go on field trips

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