19 Students Hurt In Crash Of 2 School Buses
Posted: 3:05 pm PDT May 11,
2004Updated: 5:06 pm PDT May 11,
2004
AUBURN, Wash. -- Medic crews set up triage to treat and transport 19 students Tuesday afternoon following the collision of two school buses filled with children.
The two buses were carrying 68 students when one bus rear-ended the other on Lea Hill Road SE, east of Auburn about 2:30 p.m.
Video from Chopper 7 showed medic crews putting students on backboards and loading them into ambulances.
The students, from Rainier Middle School, complained of neck and back injuries, said a representative of the Auburn Fire Department. Of the 22 students complaining of pain, 19 were taken to hospitals.
Neither bus driver was injured, McDonald said.
The children were taken to Auburn Regional Medical Center, Valley Medical Center in Renton and St. Francis Hospital in Federal Way.
Parents with questions about their child were told to call Rainier Middle School at (253) 931-4843.
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