Bristol School Bus Crashes With Pickup Truck

BRISTOL TOWNSHIP, PA — A Bristol Township school bus crashed with a pickup truck Tuesday morning, according to school officials.

At about 7 a.m. a truck traveling south on Ford Road lost control, struck a utility pole, flipped over and hit a bus headed to Harry S. Truman High School, according to Bristol Township School District spokeswoman Kellie Dietrich.

There were about 35 students on board the bus at the time of the crash, she said.

Students remained on the bus until emergency crews arrived and "safely transferred" them to another bus, which took them to school after the students were checked out by EMS crew members.

The school nurse and counselors met the students upon their arrival and will remain available to them all day, Dietrich said.

According to Newportville Fire Company No. 1, which responded to the crash, the driver of the truck had to be extricated from its cab. The company also said there were wires knocked down in the crash and that they were laying across the top of the school bus.

The truck driver was taken to a local hospital with undisclosed injuries, the fire company said.