The Associated Press
 AP Photo/Michael Conroy An investigator checks out the scene where a school bus crashed with a car amid icy road conditions in Ind. Wednesday. No life-threatening injuries were immediately reported. |
FRANKTON, Ind. — A school bus carrying as many as 60 middle school and high school students collided with a car Wednesday morning, landing on its side in a farm field, the sheriff said. No life-threatening injuries were immediately reported.
All students were off the bus by the time emergency crews arrived, Madison County Sheriff Ron Richardson told WBST radio.
Uninjured students were helping their injured classmates and some returned to the bus in an effort to help the driver, who was trapped inside.
Richardson said 50 to 60 students were on board the bus, which was hit on the passenger side and landed on the driver’s side in the field.
The crash occurred on a rural road about 35 miles northeast of Indianapolis.
Joshua Derrickson, a junior at Frankton High School, told The Herald Bulletin of Anderson that one student was bleeding badly and another appeared to have a broken arm.
“I was in the back on an inside seat, so everyone ended up on top of me,” Derrickson said in a phone interview from the scene.
A secretary for Frankton-Lapel Community Schools confirmed that a district bus was involved in an accident, but had no other details.
The school district was operating on a two-hour delay because of icy roads.