{"id":102092,"date":"2026-01-16T09:39:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/102092\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T09:39:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:39:17","slug":"1-killed-in-head-on-collision-with-illinois-school-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/102092\/","title":{"rendered":"1 killed in head-on collision with Illinois school bus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jan. 15 (UPI) — The driver of a private passenger vehicle died after colliding head-on with a school bus Thursday morning in Manhattan, Ill.<\/p>\n

The crash happened at 8:32 a.m. CST as the bus was carrying 10 students<\/a> and a driver, all of whom were taken to a nearby hospital out of precaution.\n<\/p>\n

Manhattan Fire Protection District personnel responded to the accident scene near the intersection of Manhattan Monee Road and Kankakee Road and medically evaluated<\/a> all students and the driver at the scene.<\/p>\n

No bus passengers sustained major injuries, but the driver of the private vehicle was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n

Reports do not indicate if the passenger vehicle carried anyone other than the driver.<\/p>\n

The bus belongs to the Manhattan School District, and all students and the driver were released from a local hospital by 1 p.m., school district officials said.<\/p>\n

“Our hearts are with everyone impacted by this tragic incident,” MSD Superintendent Damien Aherne said.<\/p>\n

“We are grateful for the swift response of our first responders and our school staff, whose priority was ensuring the safety and well-being of our students,” Aherne said.<\/p>\n

“We will continue to provide support to our students and their families during this difficult time,” he added.\n<\/p>\n

An investigation into the crash and its cause was underway.<\/p>\n

Manhattan is about 45 miles southeast of Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 15 (UPI) — The driver of a private passenger vehicle died after colliding head-on with a school…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63,27,4107],"class_list":["post-102092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-top-stories","tag-u-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102092","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=102092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}