Driver, students injured after car wedges underneath school bus in Kansas City
A driver was injured and several students were taken to a hospital following a two-vehicle crash with a school bus Tuesday morning in Kansas City.
Officers responded just before 7:30 a.m. to a crash at the intersection of East 23rd Street and Wheeling Avenue, where the driver of a Dodge Dakota was seriously injured after striking a school bus, according to a news release from Kansas City police.
The bus was turning left onto Wheeling, when the Dodge sped down 23rd, hit the right rear side of the bus and went underneath the bus, lifting the rear tires off the road.
Police said the Dodge driver was taken to a hospital with serious injuries. He was not wearing a seat belt, and officials are investigating whether he was impaired.
Four of the fifteen students on the bus were transported to hospitals with injuries that were not life-threatening. Three students were taken by ambulance and the other was transported by a parent.
Another school bus brought the remaining students to school.
