65 students taken to hospital after bus flipped over in ditch near Cleveland

Wednesday, January 4, 2017
CLEVELAND, TX (KTRK) -- Sixty-five students were taken to the hospital for precautionary reasons after a bus accident near Cleveland, Texas.

Cleveland ISD Police Chief Rex Evans told ABC13 that only ten students had to be treated in the emergency room at Cleveland Emergency Hospital.
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The accident happened around 4pm on FM1010 near CR-325, Evans said.

According to the district, the driver was trying to avoid something involving two vehicles in front of him when the bus slid onto its side and into a ditch. The students were from Eastside Intermediate School.

"We were so scared. We were screaming. We were scared the bus was going to turn over," said sixth-grader Monica Martinez.

Martinez, 12, had a sore back and a cut above her lip from hitting the seat in front of her on impact. ABC13 spoke to her as she was leaving the hospital with her father.
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"Everybody was screaming," she said.



The bus driver was taken to the hospital for a drug and alcohol check.

DPS is investigating the accident. The bus did not have seat belts.
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