Two kids are taken to St. John hospital complaining of injuries after a Tulsa school bus hits a truck on the Broken Arrow Expressway this morning. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol identifies them as two girls, ages 14 and 15. EMSA says a third student was treated at the scene of the crash and several more students refused medical attention.
There were 40 students on the school bus according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. OHP says the school bus hit a truck from behind that had slowed down for traffic congestion. The report goes on to say that truck was then forced into a third vehicle. The bus driver was 23-year-old William Connery, II. OHP says he and the drivers of the other two vehicles were not injured.
One student told KRMG that is was horrible because of all the screaming on the school bus when the crash happened.
The school bus and the students were moved to a Tulsa fire station near downtown so parents could pick up their children. The rest of the students were loaded onto a different school bus and taken to school.
One parent who arrived at the fire station was crying when she hugged her daughter. As the student was embraced she said, “I am okay, momma. I am okay.”
The mother told KRMG she was scared, “You are a mom and you want to protect. And when you send to school you don’t expect this. You know you don’t think about it. I didn’t tell her I loved her when she got on the bus this morning and it makes you think of everything you should have done.”
Tulsa Public Schools says five students were picked up by their parents at the fire station and the remaining students went on to school at Edison.