{"id":419365,"date":"2026-10-05T16:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T16:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/419365\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T16:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T16:58:09","slug":"florida-school-bus-crash-kills-2-including-10th-grade-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/419365\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida school bus crash kills 2, including 10th-grade student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"anchor-c5c1d2\" class=\"body-graf\">A school bus crash in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/school-bus-crash-in-central-florida-kills-2-including-10th-grade-student-deputies-say\/3868448\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Central Florida<\/a> on Monday killed two people, including a 10th-grade student, deputies said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-883806\" class=\"body-graf\">According to the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s 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<p id=\"anchor-9170c1\" class=\"body-graf\">\u201cTwo people have been killed: a 10th Grade girl and an occupant from one of the other vehicles,\u201d the sheriff\u2019s office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/polkcountysheriff\/posts\/1516413490522015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-b66a93\" class=\"body-graf\">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<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/261005-school-bus-crash-florida-mn-1220-56972c.jpg\" alt=\"Vehicles at a school bus crash in central Florida\" height=\"372\" width=\"590\"\/>A school bus crash in Central Florida on Monday, Oct. 5, 2026, killed two people, including a 10th-grade student, deputies said.Polk County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-c9217c\" class=\"body-graf\">Three other vehicles were involved in the crash.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-2ada09\" class=\"body-graf\">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<p id=\"anchor-c293e3\" class=\"body-graf\">The bus was carrying 39 people, which included 37 high school students, who were on their way to Winter Haven High School.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-d804ff\" class=\"body-graf\">Deputies said the other two people were identified as the bus driver and their 9-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-e60415\" class=\"endmark body-graf\">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.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-419365","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\/419365","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=419365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}