Nine children taken to hospital following school bus crash near Palmyra

OTOE COUNTY, Neb. (KOLN) - Nine children, between the ages of 5 and 14, were on a school bus when it was involved in a crash in Otoe County Tuesday morning.

The crash happened around 7:30 a.m. on Highway 2 east of Palmyra.

The Nebraska State Patrol said the preliminary investigation shows the school bus was slowing to turn onto a driveway when it was rear-ended by the driver of a Ford F-150 pickup. The impact of the crash caused the bus to flip onto its side.

Upon arrival, several students were found with mostly minor injuries. All nine students aboard the bus were transported to Bryan Health Center West Campus with what are believed to be non-life-threatening injuries. Parents were reunited with their kids at the hospital. NSP said both drivers involved were also transported with non-life-threatening injuries.

According to Bryan Health, one patient was admitted and two patients are in triage. All other patients were discharged.

NSP Troopers, Otoe County Sheriff’s deputies, and rescue crews from Palmyra, Douglas, Syracuse, and Nebraska City all responded to the scene.

NSP is investigating the crash.

Caudill said nine children, and the drivers of both the truck and school bus were taken to the hospital with non life-threatening injuries.

The children on board the bus attended elementary schools in either Palmyra and Bennett, Caudill said.

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