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SCHOOL BUS CRASH REPORTS 2007Bus Accident Injures Six Students,
Driver SPRING HILL — Five students and a bus driver were transported by ambulance to a local hospital, while one patient, a 7-year-old boy, was airlifted to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Tampa following a bus accident along Spring Hill Drive Thursday afternoon. Several lanes were closed near the Barclay Avenue intersection after a bus transporting more than a dozen students from Challenger K-8 School of Science and Mathematics collided with a Chevrolet SUV shortly after 4 p.m., according to Spring Hill Fire Rescue. “I saw the driver’s reaction and I braced myself,” said 14-year-old Tim Kyle, an eighth-grader at Challenger who was riding near the back. Kyle said the Chevrolet crossed into the lane toward the entrance of Pristine Place and the bus smashed into it. Several students were lying on the grass in front of the subdivision and were being treated by paramedics. Several wore neck braces and were strapped to stretchers before being loaded into nearby ambulances. The majority of the patients were sent to Spring Hill Regional Hospital, a rescue spokesman said. Several school system representatives were at the scene along with Challenger Principal Sue Stoops. Stoops would not comment, but did confirm all of the parents of the students on the bus had been contacted by 5:15 p.m. The boy who was flown to Tampa was not in critical condition, paramedics said. Several parents arrived to pick up their
children while several other students loaded into another school bus and
were transported home.
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