Buses on I-25
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DENVER - Six area children were hurt Sunday night when a school bus rolled over along Interstate 25.
Students from the Poudre School district had spent Sunday in Denver and were on their way back home when the accident happened.
Police say the bus rolled on northbound I-25 roughly two miles past the Windsor exit.
The cause of the crash is still under investigation but the Colorado State patrol says it looks like this may be a case of driver error.
State troopers say the bus hit the center median, drifted back onto the interstate and then hit the center median again causing the rollover.
Six students and one teacher had to be taken to the Medical Center of the Rockies, one with serious injuries. Five of the students and the teacher were released as of 4:30 a.m. Monday.
According to Eric Hart, house supervisor at Medical Center of the Rockies, the student with serious injuries is in stable condition.
Over two dozen students were on the bus in total. A total of 52 students were on the field trip but traveled in two different buses. Students in the second bus were not involved in the accident.
Troopers also say when they arrived at the scene the students were wandering around the median along the interstate.
Some of the parents were able to pick their children up at the scene and the remaining students were taken to Poudre High School to meet their families.
Investigators say the bus driver is cooperating and they still need to conduct more interviews to find out exactly what happened.
Students from the Poudre School district had spent Sunday in Denver and were on their way back home when the accident happened.
Police say the bus rolled on northbound I-25 roughly two miles past the Windsor exit.
The cause of the crash is still under investigation but the Colorado State patrol says it looks like this may be a case of driver error.
State troopers say the bus hit the center median, drifted back onto the interstate and then hit the center median again causing the rollover.
Six students and one teacher had to be taken to the Medical Center of the Rockies, one with serious injuries. Five of the students and the teacher were released as of 4:30 a.m. Monday.
According to Eric Hart, house supervisor at Medical Center of the Rockies, the student with serious injuries is in stable condition.
Over two dozen students were on the bus in total. A total of 52 students were on the field trip but traveled in two different buses. Students in the second bus were not involved in the accident.
Troopers also say when they arrived at the scene the students were wandering around the median along the interstate.
Some of the parents were able to pick their children up at the scene and the remaining students were taken to Poudre High School to meet their families.
Investigators say the bus driver is cooperating and they still need to conduct more interviews to find out exactly what happened.
(CBS4) WINDSOR, Colo. More than two dozen students from Poudre High School in Fort Collins were on a school bus that rolled over early Monday morning on Interstate 25 near the Windsor exit in Larimer County. Six students, a teacher and the bus driver were hurt, including one student who had serious injuries.
The school bus was heading northbound on I-25 at about 12:45 a.m. when it went off the left side of the road, came back on the highway, then went back off the road and rolled on to its side.
"It looks like driver error (caused the crash) right now," Trooper Clinton Rushing III of the state patrol said.
There were 26 students from Poudre High school on the bus along with a teacher and a male driver. The eight injured people were taken to the Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland where one student remained hospitalized at 8 a.m. Monday.
School district officials said a female student was in surgery, but expected to be okay. Everyone else had been treated and released.
The students had been attending a concert in the Denver area Sunday night and were returning home to Fort Collins when the accident happened.
The bus that crashed was one of two carrying Poudre High students back to Fort Collins from the concert. A total of about 52 students plus chaperones were on the buses.
The second bus took the students who were not taken to the hospital back to Poudre High School.
A Poudre High junior died Friday night in a crash. Hagan Klamm, 16, died in a crash on on Highway 287 near Laporte.
Counselors were going to be at the school Monday during classes to help students deal with the news of the accidents.
The school bus was heading northbound on I-25 at about 12:45 a.m. when it went off the left side of the road, came back on the highway, then went back off the road and rolled on to its side.
"It looks like driver error (caused the crash) right now," Trooper Clinton Rushing III of the state patrol said.
There were 26 students from Poudre High school on the bus along with a teacher and a male driver. The eight injured people were taken to the Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland where one student remained hospitalized at 8 a.m. Monday.
School district officials said a female student was in surgery, but expected to be okay. Everyone else had been treated and released.
The students had been attending a concert in the Denver area Sunday night and were returning home to Fort Collins when the accident happened.
The bus that crashed was one of two carrying Poudre High students back to Fort Collins from the concert. A total of about 52 students plus chaperones were on the buses.
The second bus took the students who were not taken to the hospital back to Poudre High School.
A Poudre High junior died Friday night in a crash. Hagan Klamm, 16, died in a crash on on Highway 287 near Laporte.
Counselors were going to be at the school Monday during classes to help students deal with the news of the accidents.
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