May 15-- Over two dozen school children and several adults were injured when a bus was involved in a collision and overturned on Interstate 95 in northeastern Maryland on Monday.
WBAL reports that the charter bus collided with another vehicle near Havre de Grace before going off the road, striking an embankment and overturning onto its left side.
Philadelphia school officials later said there were 26 eighth-graders from Charles W. Henry School, two teachers, a parent-chaperone and the driver on board the bus, according to WBAL. School officials said the students were on a field trip to Washington D.C. and that all individuals had been accounted for.
At least two victims, one adult and one child, suffered injuries that required them to be flown to hospitals. Maryland State Police flew an adult with critical injuries to Shock Trauma in Baltimore, while Delaware State Police flew the child to Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital in Wilmington.
Book bags and accident debris were strewn across all the southbound lanes of I-95, according to WBAL.
Maryland State Police said from their preliminary investigation that the bus collided with a Honda Civic that was behind it just before crashing and overturning.
"It could have been much worse. We're glad to see that everyone is OK," Harford Memorial Hospital emergency physician Dr. Steven Fountain told WBAL.
