LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A bus carrying students on a college campus visit crashed on a Kentucky interstate Tuesday and several dozen aboard were taken to hospitals, authorities said.
The bus was a charter service and had 42 students aboard, said Jefferson County public schools spokesman Ben Jackey. All the students, sophomores and juniors from Waggener High School in Louisville, were taken to area hospitals, he said. They were on their way back to Louisville after a visit to Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond.
Most had minor to moderate injuries, but a couple were critically injured, said Jody Duncan, a spokeswoman for Metro Safe, the emergency management agency for Louisville and Jefferson County.
TV video showed the injured being placed in ambulances at the crash scene.
The crash occurred around 2:30 p.m. EDT as the bus was headed westbound on Interstate 64 near the Shelby County line.
Authorities did not know what caused the bus to crash.
The students were participating in a program that gives students a chance to visit different college campuses, Jackey said.
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet spokeswoman Andrea Clifford said a second accident in the eastbound lanes of I-64 closed all but one in that direction, and all westbound lanes were closed.
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