NORTHWOOD — Several people, including eight students, were injured after a crash involving a school bus carrying an Ohio junior high football team on Thursday.
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The crash happened just before 7 p.m. in Sandusky County at the intersection of Country Roads 41 and 32, the Ohio State Highway Patrol (OSHP) told CBS affiliate WTOL in Toledo.
Northwood Local Schools wrote in a social media post that their junior high football team was returning from Lakota when it was involved in a bus crash.
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OSHP said that the bus was traveling on County Road 32 and did not stop at a stop sign. An SUV was driving on County Road 41 and hit the bus.
The bus had 26 people on board, OSHP said.
Medics took seven students, the 67-year-old bus driver, and the SUV driver to a hospital with minor injuries. An air ambulance transported an eighth student to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, WTOL said.
“We would like to give a huge thanks to the swift efforts of our coaches, Sandusky County EMS, Helena Fire and EMS, and Sandusky Highway Patrol, as well as other first responders on scene. Also, a thank you goes out to our Ranger parents who assisted as well,” Northwood Local Schools said in a Facebook post.
The crash remains under investigation.
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