A DeKalb County school bus crashed early Thursday, sending the driver and four elementary students to a hospital, according to the school system.
The bus was transporting 29 students to Montclair Elementary School in Brookhaven when the crash happened not far from the school, according to a DeKalb County School District spokesperson.
The condition of the driver and four students taken to the hospital was not released, but the district said they would undergo “further evaluation.”
“The remaining students were taken safely to school,” the district said in its statement.
Brookhaven police said only the driver and one student were taken by ambulance to a hospital and with non-life threatening injuries but that additional students may have been taken after an initial assessment.
Credit: Ben Hendren
Credit: Ben Hendren
Police, in a statement, said the incident happened just before 7 a.m. and involved two other vehicles as the bus traveled on Century Boulevard and approached Clairmont Road and Clairmont Way.
“A vehicle traveling on Clairmont Way failed to obey a traffic control device at the intersection, running the red light and striking the bus,” police said in a statement to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
After the initial impact, the bus struck another vehicle and came to a stop on an embankment on Clairmont Road. Police said the driver of the at-fault vehicle was cited.
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