School bus crashes into a South Carolina shop; 7 injured reported

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A school bus crashed into a store in South Carolina on Tuesday.throwing a student out of the vehicle and sending seven people in total to hospital, authorities said.

The front of the school bus ended up inside the brick building in North Charleston all the way to the windshield and the rear emergency door of the bus was left open, as can be seen in television images of the scene

The driver, four students on board the bus and two other students were taken to the hospital. All injuries appeared to be minor, North Charleston police spokesman Harv Jacobs told media.

The bus was carrying eight elementary students to North Charleston Creative Arts Elementary School when it went out of control and crashed into the Neighbor Store at around 7:45 am on Tuesday, authorities said.

The shop, which was closed at the time, serves as a bus stop for high school students. One student waiting for the bus was hit by the vehicle and another was hit by a tree branch, Jacobs said.

Authorities initially said a third student outside the bus was injured, but said the report was wrong.

The police investigate the accident and find out what caused it.

It should be remembered that on July 21, a rented school bus overturned on an exit ramp of the Hutchinson River Parkway in the Bronx (NYC), leaving 36 adults injured, three of them in serious condition.

The bus overturned on its side just before 6am that day as it turned left off the 1A exit ramp heading north onto Bruckner Boulevard, authorities said.

Thirty-six adults were treated for their wounds, according to the NYPD and the FDNY. Most suffered minor injuries and three were in serious but stable condition, according to firefighters. There were no children on board.

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