{"id":206792,"date":"2026-04-23T01:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/206792\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T01:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:33:12","slug":"9-children-6-adults-treated-at-hospital-after-queens-school-bus-crash-fdny-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/206792\/","title":{"rendered":"9 children, 6 adults treated at hospital after Queens school bus crash: FDNY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fifteen people were hospitalized \u2014 including nine children \u2014 after a <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/02\/05\/girl-dies-struck-school-bus-driver-brooklyn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:school bus;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">school bus<\/a> was rear-ended by a hit-and-run driver on a Queens expressway Wednesday, according to police and the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The bus was heading east on the Long Island Expressway around 1:26 p.m when it was struck by another vehicle near 108th St. in <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/02\/09\/toddler-broke-away-from-parents-before-fatally-struck-by-bmw-driver-in-queens-parking-garage\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Rego Park,;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Rego Park,<\/a> cops said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The kids and six adults were taken to <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nychealthandhospitals.org\/locations\/elmhurst\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Elmhurst Hospital;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Elmhurst Hospital<\/a> with minor injuries, according to the FDNY. A schools official said no students were hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cFollowing an incident involving a school bus earlier today, all students and staff are safe,\u201d said Isla Gething, a spokeswoman for New York City Public Schools. \u201cNYPD and EMS responded quickly and ensured that there were no reported student injuries, and everyone was safely escorted away from the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWe are closely monitoring the situation and remain in regular communication with the school, students, staff and families,\u201d Gething added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The other vehicle fled the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fifteen people were hospitalized \u2014 including nine children \u2014 after a school bus was rear-ended by a hit-and-run&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[194,82010,58525,9,24,3059,63,122,124,123,3058],"class_list":{"0":"post-206792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-fdny","9":"tag-isla-gething","10":"tag-long-island-expressway","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-city-public-schools","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-queens","16":"tag-queens-headlines","17":"tag-queens-news","18":"tag-school-bus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206792","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=206792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}