A school bus went down an embankment on the afternoon of Wednesday, May 27, 2015 in Lee County, located southeast of Lexington, Kentucky. The bus is reported to have skidded down a grassy hill before coming to a halt some 20 to 25 yards below where it left the roadway. The bus had nearly two dozen students on board at the time of the crash, which took place while the bus was driving on Kentucky State Highway 52, close to Blaines Branch Road. One child was hurt in the incident, but that student’s injuries have been reported as minor by district officials.
The bus was carrying students whose ages ranged from elementary-school aged to high-school aged. The age of the child injured in the crash is not yet known. No one else on the bus at the time of the incident was hurt. One 15-year-old inside the bus when the crash took place, a boy by the name of Triston, described his memory of the accident as the bus having collided with a pick-up truck before sliding off the roadway and down the grassy hill. According to his and his 8-year-old cousin, Dylan’s, eyewitness accounts, the truck may have been driving in a wrong-way lane when the collision took place.
It is not known at this time who was at fault in the crash, or whether any charges will be filed as a result of the accident. Victims of the crash inside the bus at the time of the incident described the entirety of the bus as shrieking and sobbing as the bus left the roadway and slid down to its final resting place. Neither the driver of the bus nor the driver of the truck were hurt in the crash. The bus driver, whose identity has not been released, is said by school officials to be on leave throughout the duration of the investigation into the details surrounding the accident.