Students told a local TV station that they were lifted out of their seats during the crash.
Three students were injured when a school bus crashed during foggy weather Monday morning 15 miles east of Raleigh, North Carolina, WRAL reported. Students told the local TV station that they were lifted out of their seats during the crash.
The NC State Highway Patrol said there was heavy fog in the area when the bus ran into a large, dead, broken tree limb that had fallen onto the road. The bus swerved off the road, struck a ditch, and stopped in a field. According to the state patrol, no citations will be filed.
The fog during the school bus accident was likely radiational fog, which forms during the late-night and early-morning hours and is most common during late summer to the middle of autumn. As daytime heat leaves, or radiates, from the ground, the air becomes moist, creating fog…