WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (WTVT\/WTSP\/CBS NEWSPATH\/WKRC) – Two people, including a 10th-grade student, were killed and several others were seriously injured Monday morning in a multi-vehicle crash involving a school bus in Florida.<\/p>\n
The crash happened around 6:15 a.m. near Winter Haven, according to Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd. <\/p>\n
Two people, including a 10th-grade student, were killed and several others were seriously injured Monday morning in a multi-vehicle crash involving a school bus in Florida. (WTSP\/CBS NEWSPATH)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The bus was carrying 37 Winter Haven High School students, the bus driver and the driver’s 9-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n
Judd said preliminary video showed the bus traveling in its lane when a westbound Chevrolet Malibu crossed the center line for an unknown reason and struck the bus.<\/p>\n
The impact ripped a tire from the bus, causing it to cross into the opposite lane and collide head-on with a silver Jeep, according to Judd. The Jeep caught fire.<\/p>\n
A 10th-grade girl riding on the bus was killed. A second person in the Jeep also died.<\/p>\n
Authorities issued between five and seven trauma alerts for people injured in the crash. Victims were taken from the scene by helicopters, ambulances and private vehicles. <\/p>\n
Two people, including a 10th-grade student, were killed and several others were seriously injured Monday morning in a multi-vehicle crash involving a school bus in Florida. (WTVT\/CBS NEWSPATH)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Judd said one person remained in critical condition Monday, while several others were receiving hospital treatment.<\/p>\n
“If there’s a silver lining, the silver lining is there wasn’t more fatalities than there were,” Judd said. “But to have one fatality is one too many, and to have one fatality of a beautiful high school girl is just heartbreaking.”<\/p>\n
Polk County Public Schools Superintendent Fred Heid called it an “incredibly tragic event” but said the crash could have resulted in even more serious injuries or deaths.<\/p>\n
“We drill for this with our students intentionally so that they know how to evacuate a bus in the event of an accident,” Heid said. “We are very, very fortunate today that more students were not seriously injured.”<\/p>\n
Authorities said at least four vehicles were involved. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (WTVT\/WTSP\/CBS NEWSPATH\/WKRC) – Two people, including a 10th-grade student, were killed and several others were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-419403","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\/419403","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=419403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}