Pickup truck hits school bus, flees on State Road 64, troopers say

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. (WWSB) – The Florida Highway Patrol is looking for the driver of a pickup truck that hit a school bus Wednesday afternoon in Manatee County and left the scene.

Investigators say the school bus, with 51 students on board, was stopped in the northbound lane of 57th Street East near State Road 64 at about 3:40 p.m. when a pickup truck attempted to pass the bus on the right.

The left side of the pickup hit the bus’s right side, troopers say…

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