At least 17 people were injured when a school bus taking students home after school in central Texas was involved in a serious accident.
The Leander Independent School District (ISD) school bus was traveling south along Nameless Road in Leander, about 30 miles northwest of Austin, at the end of the school day with 42 students and one adult on board when it left the roadway and rolled onto its side, Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Highway Patrol Sergeant Billy Ray said in a media briefing Aug. 13.
"At approximately 3:15 p.m., we received reports from the 911 center of the school bus rollover from Leander ISD," Austin-Travis County EMS Assistant Chief Kevin Parker said during the briefing. "Upon arriving on scene, our paramedics and firefighters, and police officers identified 43 total patients from the collision. Of those, 12 needed to be transported."
Images from the crash show the bus lying on its side with its exterior badly damaged and dented.
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