26 high-school students injured
WEST LIBERTY, W.Va. — West Virginia State Police say at least 26 Ohio high-school students and one adult were injured in a school bus crash this week.
The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register newspapers report that the bus, carrying varsity football players from Buckeye Local High School in Rayland, Ohio, slammed into a tree near West Liberty, West Virginia, Thursday evening.
The students were on their way to watch a football practice at West Liberty University, which is across the Ohio River from the Buckeye Local school, which is in Jefferson County.
State police say speed appears to be a factor in the crash, which occurred on Route 88, just south of West Liberty University. The driver of the bus, whose name wasn’t released, was cited, the State Patrol said.
The injured students were taken to hospitals in West Virginia and Ohio. Officials say several students suffered severe injuries, but none is believed to be life-threatening. A spokesman for Wheeling Hospital said 16 crash victims came to that facility, with four admitted, including one who was in intensive care.
A spokeswoman for Ohio Valley Medical Center in Wheeling and East Ohio Regional Hospital in Martins Ferry, Ohio, said another 10 patients were treated at OVMC and one at East Ohio. Two of those 11 were admitted, she said.
State police say there were about 40 people on the bus at the time of the crash, which remains under investigation. Leanna and Joseph: boy, April 18 Katelyn and Brad: girl, April 16 Megan/ boy, April 17 Joni/
Lakeea/ girl, April 15 Brandon: Shawn: girl, April 16 Christina/ Bryan: girl, April 17 Megan and Derek: girl, April 18 Ronni and Jeremy: girl, April 17 Payge: boy, April 17 Brianna/ Donyelle: girl, April 18 Leah/ April 19 Lisa and Matthew: girl, April 20 Travis: boy, Demetrius: Elizabeth and Piotr: boy, April 18 Kendall and Seth: girl, April 17 Jordan: boy, April 14 Can/ boy, April 18 Delaney/ boy, April 18 Carly and David: boy, April 18 James: Donnie: Zeinab/ girl, April 18 Christin and Chris: boy, April 17 Kelli/ April 13
Ahmed: Antonio: boy, Jessica and Joseph: boy, April 18 Kari/ girl, April 13 Claire and Donald: boy, Joshua:
Ashley and Scott: girl, April 18 Maggie and Thomas: boy, April 18 Holly/ April 17 Cierra and Douglas Jr.: girl, April 19 Elizabeth/ boy, April 16 Joanna and David: boy, April 17 Randy: girl, Kevin:
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