A school bus full of middle-school students on a field trip collided with a dump truck and an SUV in Tennessee, killing at least two children on Friday, March 27.
The Tennessee Highway Patrol confirmed the deaths of the two Clarksville-Montgomery County students, reported the Clarksville Leaf Chronicle, part of the USA TODAY Network. Several others were injured, with multiple people airlifted to trauma centers in Nashville and Memphis.
"I want to speak directly to the families of the students that we lost today: There are no adequate words we can use to ease the pain that you're feeling right now," Major Travis Plotzer with the highway patrol said at a news conference about the tragic deaths. "This is a parent's worst nightmare."
The Clarksville-Montgomery County's Kenwood Middle School students were headed to Jackson, Tennessee, for a field trip when their school bus was involved with a crash with a Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) dump truck and a Chevrolet Trailblazer, authorities said.
While Plotzer said the investigation is ongoing, "it doesn't appear that TDOT had any contributing factors to the crash."
