Ten Injured In School Bus Rollover In Texas

Ten group were taken to hospitals Wednesday aft an simple schoolhouse autobus successful Texas rolled complete connected a agrarian roadworthy northbound of Austin, officials said.

The Travis County Emergency Services District said that 9 of nan group were students. The driver was besides transported to , nan agency said successful a Facebook post.

One of nan injuries was life-threatening, according to Kevin Parker, adjunct main pinch Austin-Travis County Medical Emergency Services, and 2 were perchance life-threatening.

The remaining injuries were not life-threatening, he said.

There were 43 group connected nan autobus astatine nan time. The rollover occurred aft school, earlier immoderate students had been dropped off, said Bruce Gearing, superintendent of nan Leander Independent School District.

It isn’t clear what caused nan vehicle, described by Gearing arsenic a 2024 exemplary pinch seatbelts, to thrust disconnected nan correct broadside of nan roadworthy earlier it rolled, an charismatic pinch nan Texas Department of Public Safety told reporters.

The charismatic noted a flimsy curve successful nan roadworthy and said a preliminary investigation is ongoing.

Images from nan segment showed nan damaged conveyance connected its side.

Gearing described nan driver arsenic a seasoned seasoned and said nan autobus chiefly carries students from a section simple school. It’s unclear really galore students were wearing seatbelts erstwhile nan autobus rolled, he said.

“This portion of our Leander ISD family has been done truthful overmuch already this summertime with nan floods and this calamity this day is really breaking our hearts,” Gearing said. “We want each of those students and their families to cognize that our prayers are pinch them, our thoughts are pinch them, and we will do everything that we tin successful our powerfulness to support them.”