8 injured in bus accident on I-29 Friday evening
BUCHANAN COUNTY, Mo. (News-Press NOW) -- A bus containing 29 kids from a religious school in Westwood, Kansas, flipped over at the 35.2-mile marker on Interstate 29, injuring eight kids on board.
The St. Joseph Police Department sent out a Nixle Alert at 3:45 p.m. on Friday afternoon, telling drivers to avoid the area of northbound I-29 near southeast Grand DD due to a traffic accident.
The school name on the bus that flipped over reads "Olivet Baptist Church, Shawnee Mission Christian School", which contained soccer and volleyball players from the school.
The teams were headed to St. Joseph for games.
"The front passenger gear tire and a rear passenger tire blew out," said Sgt. Shane Hux with MSHP. "The bus traveled off the east side of the northbound lanes and overturned."
Numerous emergency response teams, like the Northland Regional Ambulance, Buchanan County Sheriff's Office, Missouri State Highway Patrol and local fire departments, were on the scene from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m.
The crash resulted in two serious and six minor injuries. Five of the juveniles injured were sent to North Kansas City Hospital, and three of the juveniles were sent to Mosaic Life Care.
The rest of the kids on the bus were transported to a local fire station and were picked up by their parents.
This is a developing story.
