{"id":105074,"date":"2025-08-23T20:54:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T20:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/105074\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T20:54:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T20:54:13","slug":"bus-carrying-football-team-crashes-near-pittsburgh-at-least-21-students-hospitalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/105074\/","title":{"rendered":"Bus carrying football team crashes near Pittsburgh; at least 21 students hospitalized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                   CBS News Live <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/keyart-pittsburgh-1920x1080.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/live\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>          CBS News Pittsburgh<\/p>\n<p>          Live<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Aliquippa Jr. High School Football Team was involved in a bus crash on Saturday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A parent confirmed to KDKA-TV&#8217;s Jessica Riley that the team was on the bus at the time of the crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/aliquippajrfbcrash.png#.png\" alt=\"aliquippajrfbcrash.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Jessica Riley<\/p>\n<p>According to the team&#8217;s Facebook page, the team has left the scene as of approximately 11 a.m., and each player is being evaluated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In total, 28 people were on the bus at the time of the crash. Of the passengers, 25 students were on the bus, and 21 of those students were taken to the hospital. As was the bus driver.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Their conditions are unknown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two other adults on the bus at the time were not hurt.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Aliquippa superintendent said that he is heading to the hospital to check on the students.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The extent of the injuries has not been released.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Josh Shapiro responds to the crash<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Saturday afternoon in a statement that he had spoken to Aliquippa Mayor Dwan Walker, while offering his administration&#8217;s full support as authorities continue to investigate the crash.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Football brings the Aliquippa community together &#8211; and I know those who prepared to cheer on their team today are already stepping in to care for their neighbors and check in on the families affected,&#8221; Gov. Shapiro said. &#8220;The entire community is in our thoughts today. Please join Lori and me in praying for the team, their parents, their coaches, and everyone rallying behind them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/patrick-damp\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick  Damp<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Patrick Damp is a web producer for CBS Pittsburgh. A Pittsburgh native who grew up watching KDKA-TV, Patrick studied journalism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. After half a decade in sports communication, Patrick decided to pursue his dream of working in journalism in his hometown and joined the CBS Pittsburgh team in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS News Live CBS News Pittsburgh Live The Aliquippa Jr. High School Football Team was involved in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,69654,69655,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-105074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-beaver-county","tag-bus-crash","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}