A schoolchild and an adult chaperone were killed after the school bus they were traveling on collided with a dump truck.
The horror crash happened on Interstate 80 in Mount Olive, NJ., 50 miles west of New York City, at around 10:30am ET Thursday, with many others injured.
Local radio stations reported that at least two of those injured were in a life-threatening condition, with a dozen ambulances sent to the scene, amid reports some children were flung from the bus’s windows.
Pam Garretson, from nearby St Joseph’s Medical Center said the hospital was assessing one child and that they believed another one was en route.
The students involved after believed to be fifth graders from East Brook Middle School in Paramus, NJ.
Parents of those on the bus have since begun arriving there to await news of their loved ones.
The trip happened close to Waterloo Village in Stanhope, where a fifth grade trip had been scheduled to take place, although the school has not confirmed if it was this group involved in the smash.
Photos from the scene show the wrecked bus lying on its side, with its chassis apparently ripped off and entire front end sheared off by the violent collision.
The bus was from a Paramus Middle School and was on its way to Waterloo Village when the smash happened. Mount Oliver Mayor Rob Greenbaum said after: ‘There’s an incredible emergency response from throughout Morris County and by State Police.
It’s a horrific scene.’ Mayor Greenbaum added that the bus had been ‘mangled’ in the smash.
Local newspaper the Daily Record reported that one child was seen walking around and sitting on a stretcher which was wheeled to a nearby ambulance.
They said that the child did not appear to be injured.
BREAKING: School bus vs. dump truck on #NewJersey Hwy. Children were on the bus & injuries are being reported. pic.twitter.com/1XPP9P8zdz— Angelica Carrillo (@acarrillonews) May 17, 2018
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