The driver of a passenger vehicle was killed when it collided with a Manhattan School District 114 bus carrying students Thursday morning in southeastern Will County.<\/p>\n
The crash occurred at about 8:17 a.m. near the intersection of Manhattan Monee Road and Kankakee Road, the Manhattan Fire Protection District said.<\/p>\n
The bus was carrying 10 students and one driver, the fire district said. <\/p>\n
All students and the driver were taken to area hospitals for evaluation as a precautionary measure, and all parents and guardians have been contacted, the fire district said.<\/p>\n
There were no major injuries among the children on the school bus, the fire district said.<\/p>\n
All eastbound and westbound lanes are closed at this time, the Illinois State Police said. Drivers should seek an alternate route. <\/p>\n
The crash investigation is active, and no further information was available at the time, the Illinois State Police said.<\/p>\n
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/p>\n
A Manhattan School District 114 bus is towed away from the scene of a crash that occurred on the morning of Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. The bus was carrying 10 students when it collided with a passenger vehicle near the intersection of Manhattan Monee Road and Kankakee Road in southeastern Will County. (Photo by Bob Okon)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The driver of a passenger vehicle was killed when it collided with a Manhattan School District 114 bus…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[3302,46428,8958,46427,267,75,84,83,9,24,12,63,10780,7058,7057],"class_list":{"0":"post-101463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-breaking","9":"tag-fire-district","10":"tag-illinois-state-police","11":"tag-kankakee","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-manhattan","14":"tag-manhattan-headlines","15":"tag-manhattan-news","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-school","21":"tag-shaw-local-front-headlines","22":"tag-will-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}