NORTH EAST — A sport utility vehicle crashed into a school bus carrying 26 North East High School students at an area intersection on Friday afternoon, sending one of those pupils to a regional hospital in an ambulance, according to the Cecil County Sheriff’s Office.
“There were 27 people on that bus, counting the bus driver. Only one person on that bus – a student – was injured,” outlined Lt. Michael Zack, a CCSO spokesman.
An ambulance crew transported that student from the crash scene at the intersection of West Pulaski Highway (Route 40) and Red Toad Road to Christiana Hospital in Delaware, he reported, describing that pupil’s injuries as “non-life-threatening.”
A 36-year-old man who was the driver of the SUV and the woman who had occupied his front-passenger seat refused medical treatment, according to Zack.
Deputies arrested the driver at the scene because he had an open Pennsylvania warrant relating to a traffic case in that jurisdiction, not because of Friday’s crash involving the school bus, Zack explained. Information regarding that Pennsylvania traffic case was unavailable, as of Friday night.