Lubbock, TX (3/4/2021) – A school bus driver and two children suffered serious injuries after being involved in a wreck with an 18-wheeler in Lubbock County.
The accident happened around 6:40 a.m. on FM 1585 and County Road 2500. A school bus carrying 11 students was headed northbound while an 18-wheeler was headed westbound. The school bus failed to yield the right-of-way and collided with the 18-wheeler.
The bus driver, 52-year-old Margaret Hernandez, and two students were taken to the Covenant Medical Center. Among those three individuals, the driver and one student suffered serious injuries. The other student’s injuries were minor.
Nine more children were taken to University Medical Center, one with serious injuries — the remaining eight with minor injuries, according to DPS.
The driver of the 18-wheeler was not hurt.
Crash investigators will review all factors that may have led up to the accident and police reports will be made available in fourteen days.
School Bus Accidents
Collisions involving school buses are a serious matter. In fact, according to the NHTSA, of the 320,874 fatal more vehicle crashes from 2007 to 2016, 1,147 of those crashes were school-transportation-related. As a result of the above school bus collision, there were multiple injuries among the occupants.
School transportation collisions are just one of many types of collisions attorneys Sutliff and Stout represent. If you need to discuss a school bus accident case with a personal injury lawyer from Sutliff & Stout, Injury & Accident Law Firm feel free to give us a call at (713) 405-1263 or contact us online.
Source: Everything Lubbock
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