Two Caroline County, Virginia elementary school students were taken to Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center with minor injuries after a collision with a tractor-trailer on Monday morning sent their bus careening off the roadway.
Photos on social media showed a school bus on Va. 207 near Ladysmith Road past Caroline High School in Bowling Green, striking a guardrail and going off the road. A truck is visible in the median.
Twenty-three Bowling Green Elementary School students were evaluated on the scene. Two on Bus 63 were taken to the hospital, Caroline County Public Schools said in a statement Monday morning.
The man behind the wheel of the tractor-trailer, Anderson Williams, of Baltimore, has been charged with reckless driving.
@CBS6 Tractor trailer just ran into school bus in Caroline county, causing the school bus to go down the hill on Rt 207 right pass Caroline High School just now. pic.twitter.com/q9YFFVemui
— 💖💕JESSI T.💕💖 (@idatchica87) August 26, 2019
The crash occurred just before 8 a.m. Charles Hunter was commuting in the area when he saw children gathering on the roadway’s right shoulder around 8:15 a.m. soon after the crash.
“I could see the white tractor-trailer, he hit the back of the school bus, knocked the school bus over the guardrail into the woods, and he ran off into the median,” Hunter told WTOP.
“There were a lot of school kids that were there, they’d just exited the back of the bus because you couldn’t get out through the front. It looked like nobody was hurt. I assume it was the parents that were pulling over and checking out the kids.”
