One student sent to hospital after bus crash in Laurel Co.

LONDON, Ky. (WTVQ) – The Laurel Co. Sheriff says one student was taken to the hospital and two were checked at the scene by EMS after a school bus got into an accident Wednesday morning.

The Sheriff says it happen on Money Road, about 11 miles north of London, just before 7:30 a.m.  Deputies say the bus ran off the roadway on a curve and hit a tree.  The driver told investigators that he had turned to look back at the students, and when he looked back he had gone off the road and couldn’t avoid the tree.

Over 30 students were on the bus at the time of the accident.  One was taken to St. Joseph Hospital London, while two others were checked out on site.  Another bus was brought to the scene to take the students to school.