Bus carrying 26 kids on DC field trip overturns

HAVRE DE GRACE, Md. — A bus carrying dozens of Pennsylvania eighth-graders to Washington, D.C., for a field trip overturned on Interstate 95 in northeastern Maryland on Monday, state police said. Officials said one child and one teacher were seriously injured.

The bus carrying 26 children from Charles W. Henry School, three chaperones, and the driver overturned at least once on the highway near Havre de Grace, Maryland State Police spokesman Greg Shipley said. One child and one adult were flown to trauma centers in Maryland and Delaware. Others were taken to hospitals by ambulance, police said. No deaths have been reported.

One teacher was flown to the University of Maryland Medical Center’s trauma center in Baltimore, but was still going through triage, the University of Maryland Medical System said in a statement.

A spokeswoman for the Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Delaware, said a student had been taken there.

Neither facility would give information on the patients’ injuries or conditions. and did not cause any flights to be delayed or canceled.

“We are working to change the codes on all of our aircraft,” added the spokeswoman, Maddie King. of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly before an official announcement.

Trump’s foreign trip this month includes a stop at the Vatican.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.