ECONOMY BOROUGH, Pa. — A bus carrying a junior excessive soccer group to a sport crashed Saturday north of Pittsburgh, sending 21 of the 28 folks on board to the hospital, officers mentioned.
Twenty-five Aliquippa Junior Excessive college students and three adults have been headed to a sport in close by Gibsonia. The crash occurred in Financial system Borough, about 20 miles north of Pittsburgh.
Financial system Borough Police Chief Michael O’Brien mentioned he didn’t have data on the medical standing of these taken to hospitals.
O’Brien mentioned he understood the bus turned on its facet in the course of the crash however got here again upright as the scholars have been evacuating the automobile.
The police chief mentioned the crash occurred in a troublesome spot within the street. “It’s on a nasty bend,” O’Brien mentioned. “It’s being investigated now to find out what occurred.”
A Fb web page for the Aliquippa Junior Excessive soccer group mentioned every participant was being evaluated and requested for “a thought or prayer for every participant or coach that was touring this morning.”