{"id":420029,"date":"2026-10-06T08:32:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T08:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/420029\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T08:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T08:32:19","slug":"2-killed-including-10th-grader-after-florida-school-bus-overturns-in-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/420029\/","title":{"rendered":"2 killed, including 10th grader, after Florida school bus overturns in crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two people, including a 10th-grade girl, were killed and several others injured Monday when a school bus overturned onto its roof in a multi-vehicle crash in Florida, police said.The bus was headed to Winter Haven High School shortly after 6 a.m. with 39 people aboard \u2014 37 students, the driver and the driver’s daughter \u2014 when an oncoming white Chevy Malibu crossed the center line, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said.Judd said during a news conference that the Malibu struck the bus near its rear wheels, ripping off a tire and sending the bus into a head-on collision with a Jeep that caught fire. The Jeep\u2019s driver was killed.<\/p>\n

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In this photo provided by the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, emergency personnel respond to an accident involving a school bus in Winter Haven, Fla., on Monday, Oct. 5, 2026. (Polk County Sheriff’s Office via AP)<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a horrible crash,\u201d Judd said. \u201cIt was a terrible, tragic morning. We had a beautiful 10th grade girl lose her life.\u201dOfficials said five to seven people were taken to the hospital with potentially traumatic injuries, including one person in critical condition.Polk County Public Schools Superintendent Frederick Heid said students are taught how to evacuate a bus during an emergency.\u201cThis event could have been far worse,\u201d Heid said, standing near the bus, which came to rest upside down in a ditch. \u201cYou can see the condition of the bus; you can see its current positioning.\u201dJudd said the investigation remains preliminary and that authorities expect to release more details at another news conference Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people, including a 10th-grade girl, were killed and several others injured Monday when a school bus overturned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-420029","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\/420029","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=420029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}