Multiple Aliquippa Jr. High football players injured after bus crash in Beaver County
This morning at approximately 9:50 this morning we had *** bus accident on Schaffer Road in the economy borough. The bus was transporting other school district kids to *** football game. There’s approximately 25 people on board the bus. 21 of those were patients that were transported to area hospitals. Have any type of status on those. We are not aware of haven’t been told of anybody’s status at this time. And just as far as the bus, can you kind of give us *** rundown on what exactly happened? We’re not sure. That’s still under investigation. It’s, it’s on *** bad bend, so. It’s being investigated right now to determine what happened. We were talking to one of the parents. They did go to ETM to see is that where most of the children were transported to. I believe most were transported to Children’s Allegheny General. bus driver injured, I believe so, yes. Was the bus driver taken to or he was taken to *** hospital. I’m not sure where. Can this bend and with the bus, did it ever roll over multiple times, or can you describe what the bus because I know it was upright when we saw it. Yeah, from what I understand, the bus did fall onto its side. However, it got uprighted as the children were evacuating the school bus. And just kind of um where are we at right now. It’s still under investigation. We have accident reconstruction down there. So once we have some more information from that, we’ll be able to maybe answer some of those questions. Can you talk *** little bit about the emergency fire and law enforcement response? It was was it multiple counties because of the location or because of *** mass casualty incident, *** combination of both? Well, we border Allegheny County, so we had some help from them. Bell Acres, I believe, was there. I know we had EMS and fire from several jurisdictions, and we had police there from several jurisdictions as well. When you talk about when the kids evacuated, were those wires on the ground and were those wires hot? From what I understand, the wires were high. I think some of those kids were able to get around those. With with any um. Like fire anybody there quickly enough to say stay where you are, or did they know where to go. I cannot answer that question. Where were they? Where was, where was the game at? Where were they headed? Pine Ridgeland. OK. Thank you. What time was the game? I did. And um how many students and faculty were on that bus? Do you have *** total I believe there were 2 adults on that bus. The rest were all students. How are those? Um, I believe that they’re fine. Fine, I’m sorry. I don’t believe they were transported. And how many students were on there? Approximately 21, 21. OK. And. Mayor Walker, is there anything you would like to say? No, I just, just pray for our babies and I just wanna thank Come Breau, Mayor Joanne, Mary Brewer, the chief on the response, and they’ve been the hospitality has been amazing, um, and I would cater to people just not cater to the rumors. Unless you hear it from the horse’s mouth, you know, it’s just speculation. You just keep praying for the family. All we need to be concerned about right now is praying for the families. That’s it. And then make sure they’re OK, insulate them and make sure they’re OK, and the moms and dads are OK because this is the time you need to be riding around. This is all hands on deck right now. I can’t, I gotta think. Everybody who was involved in Bay area out of all the all the all the fire departments and police departments and mayors who showed up to the fight. So this is something that when babies, something like this happens to our babies, everybody should respond without question. So we, I know the city of Al’s grateful. I know the families are grateful. We are extremely grateful. Thank you. Is anybody else doing those things? OK, thank you. Thank you very much. 25 kids with 21. 25 kids. So *** total of 27 on the bus plus the bus driver 2020. Perfect. Thank you
Multiple Aliquippa Jr. High football players injured after bus crash in Beaver County
Updated: 4:51 PM EDT Aug 23, 2025
Over 20 people were taken to the hospital after a school bus carrying Aliquippa Jr. High football players, parents, and staff crashed in Economy Borough, Beaver County, Saturday morning. In a statement from Beaver County EMS, first responders were called to the 190 block of Shaffer Road after a bus carrying students and parents from the Aliquippa School District crashed just before 10 a.m. Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 later arrived at the scene, where one of the student’s parents said the bus had been carrying members of the school district’s middle school football team. Economy Police Chief Michael O’Brien also confirmed that 21 people were taken to the hospital as a result of the incident. The severity of the injuries was not immediately known.Our photojournalist captured crews working on removing the bus from the scene, which sustained front-end damage. Multiple power lines and poles were also down in the area following the crash. Chief O’Brien said during a press conference that there were a total of 28 people, including players, coaches, and the bus driver, on the bus at the time of the incident. WATCH FULL VIDEO OF PRESS CONFERENCE IN PLAYFINDER ABOVE He said the students were heading to Pine-Richland for a game. Mayor Dwan Walker asked for the community’s prayers during the press conference as officials continue to investigate what led to the incident. “Just pray for our babies,” Walker said. “All we need is prayers and to make sure that they’re okay.” A Facebook post from the team that was posted just before 1 p.m. said the team had left the area where the crash occurred and asked for prayers for those being evaluated. “Please take a moment to send a thought or prayer for each player or coach that was traveling this morning,” the post read. UPMC said in a statement Saturday afternoon that 20 people are currently being treated and evaluated at Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh. An investigation is ongoing. This is a developing story. Download the WTAE app to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news in your inbox.
BEAVER COUNTY, Pa. —
Over 20 people were taken to the hospital after a school bus carrying Aliquippa Jr. High football players, parents, and staff crashed in Economy Borough, Beaver County, Saturday morning.
In a statement from Beaver County EMS, first responders were called to the 190 block of Shaffer Road after a bus carrying students and parents from the Aliquippa School District crashed just before 10 a.m.
Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 later arrived at the scene, where one of the student’s parents said the bus had been carrying members of the school district’s middle school football team.
Economy Police Chief Michael O’Brien also confirmed that 21 people were taken to the hospital as a result of the incident. The severity of the injuries was not immediately known.
Our photojournalist captured crews working on removing the bus from the scene, which sustained front-end damage. Multiple power lines and poles were also down in the area following the crash.
Chief O’Brien said during a press conference that there were a total of 28 people, including players, coaches, and the bus driver, on the bus at the time of the incident.
WATCH FULL VIDEO OF PRESS CONFERENCE IN PLAYFINDER ABOVE
He said the students were heading to Pine-Richland for a game.
Mayor Dwan Walker asked for the community’s prayers during the press conference as officials continue to investigate what led to the incident.
“Just pray for our babies,” Walker said. “All we need is prayers and to make sure that they’re okay.”
A Facebook post from the team that was posted just before 1 p.m. said the team had left the area where the crash occurred and asked for prayers for those being evaluated.
“Please take a moment to send a thought or prayer for each player or coach that was traveling this morning,” the post read.
UPMC said in a statement Saturday afternoon that 20 people are currently being treated and evaluated at Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh.
An investigation is ongoing.
This is a developing story.
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