A school bus crash in Central Florida on Monday killed two people, including a 10th-grade student, deputies said.<\/p>\n
According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, the crash happened at around 6:15 a.m. in Winter Haven when the bus, going eastbound on Old Lucerne Park Road, was struck by a Chevy Malibu that was heading westbound.<\/p>\n
Deputies said the crash caused the bus to lose control and tear off its tire, and then it crashed head-on with a Jeep, causing it to overturn.<\/p>\n
Three other vehicles were involved in the crash.<\/p>\n
Deputies said that the student who died was on the bus, and the second person was in the Jeep. Their identities were not released.<\/p>\n
The bus was carrying 39 people, which included 37 high school students, who were on their way to Winter Haven High School.<\/p>\n
Deputies said the other two people were identified as the bus driver and their 9-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n
Due to the crash, Lucerne Park Road was closed in both directions. Drivers are urged to take alternate routes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A school bus crash in Central Florida on Monday killed two people, including a 10th-grade student, deputies said.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-419289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}