Thursday, September 30, 1999
School bus crash injures children on field trip
BY DAVID JACOBS
The Associated Press
SOUTH BLOOMFIELD, Ohio — A school bus carrying seventh-graders on a field trip flipped over on the side of a rural highway Wednesday, injuring 38 students.
The bus apparently slipped off the shoulder of the narrow two-lane road, and the driver overcorrected, causing the bus to skid across the pavement and overturn on the other side, Pickaway County Sheriff's Lt. J. Phillip Brown said.
The driver, identified by the sheriff's office and Berger Hospital as Beverly Hoover, 41, of South Bloomfield, received minor injuries. No charges were filed, and Lt. Brown said it would take a few days to be certain what happened.
Most of the injuries to the Teays Valley Middle School students were cuts, bumps and bruises, Lt. Brown said. Nine girls and four boys, some with broken bones, were taken to Children's Hospital in Columbus, said Katie Pakel, a hospital spokeswoman. One child was admitted in fair condi tion with a shoulder injury.
Kelly Ross, spokeswoman at Berger Hospital in Circleville, said 25 children were treated there, all for minor injuries. One boy remained in the hospital under observation.
Superintendent Ron Thornton said the bus was one of three carrying students on an annual field trip to the Ohio Renaissance Festival.
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