UPDATE: 22 Hurt In Wreck Between South Dearborn School Bus, Trash Truck

UPDATE: None of the 20 students or two adults hurt had life-threatening injuries.

Indiana State Police photo.

Update at 2:01 p.m.:

Indiana State Police and Highpoint Health officials say that 22 people were injured in the Wednesday morning school bus crash on State Road 350. 

Twenty of those injured were South Dearborn High School and South Dearborn Middle School students who were aboard the bus when it collided with a Rumpke dump truck near Mt. Sinai Road, west of Aurora. Two others hurt were adults.

Highpoint Health officials echoed South Dearborn Community Schools superintendent Eric Lows that none of the injuries were life-threatening. However, two of the victims were transferred from Highpoint Health to Cincinnati hospitals.

State Road 350 has reopened at the crash scene.

Dearborn County

BUS CRASH UPDATE

Preliminary information is that the bus driver and eighteen students were transported for treatment of their injuries.

Mostly minor injuries and complaints of pain.

We are working with the school to identify the students.

More shortly. pic.twitter.com/TKAK4739n0

— Sgt. Stephen Wheeles (@ISPVersailles) March 6, 2019

Update published at 10:13 a.m.:

A total of 21 people were hurt when a South Dearborn Community Schools bus crashed into the rear of a Rumpke trash truck on State Road 350 Wednesday morning.

Nineteen of those injured people were high school and middle school students riding the bus, according to South Dearborn Community Schools superintendent Eric Lows. None of the students' injuries are believed to be life-threatening.

The students were transported to Highpoint Health in Lawrenceburg. One student was later transferred to Cincinnati Children's Hospital.

One of the injured students suffered possibly two broken legs, Lows said.

The school bus driver and at least one person with the Rumpke truck were also injured. Lows indicated the bus driver's injuries were minor, as the driver was walking around at the crash scene following the wreck.

"My thoughts and prayers go out to our students and staff and family members that are receiving medical attention as we speak," Lows said at the hospital.

The school district began working immediately to notify parents of the situation. 

"We obviously want to get the word out to our greater school community as quickly as possible when a situation like this occurs," said Lows.

@eagle993's Travis Thayer is on the scene of a school bus crash on SR 350 gathering information. pic.twitter.com/gqggpPFvBB

— Eagle Country 99.3 (@eagle993) March 6, 2019

Update published at 9:30 a.m.:

Indiana State Police Versailles Post spokesman Sgt. Stephen Wheeles confirms that students were aboard the bus at the time of the crash. Some of those students were injured and had to be taken to the hospital.

South Dearborn Community Schools assistant superintendent Chris Tanner provided a statement on the crash:

"At approximately 8:05 AM there was an accident involving a school bus traveling on highway 350 between Moores Hill and Aurora.  There were injuries during this accident and some were transported to area hospitals.  Parents of students involved in this accident are being contacted.  The investigation is ongoing and we will provide more information when available.  If you have any questions, please contact central office at 812-926-2090."

Some of those individuals injured in the crash are being taken to Highpoint Health's emergency department in Lawrenceburg. The hospital requests that parents of those injured come to the main lobby of the hospital when they arrive. 

Original story published at 9:03 a.m.:

(Aurora, Ind.) - Nearly a dozen people were injured in a Wednesday morning crash involving a school bus in Dearborn County.

The South Dearborn Community School Corporation bus and a trash truck collided on State Road 350 near Mt. Sinai Road at around 7:30 a.m.

At least 11 injuries have been reported, including adults and children.

State Road 350 is closed at the crash scene.

Eagle Country 99.3 will update this story as more information becomes available.

Dearborn County-Troopers are on the scene of a crash involving a school bus on State Road 350 at Mt. Sinai Road near Aurora. There are injuries.

More information will be released when available.

— Sgt. Stephen Wheeles (@ISPVersailles) March 6, 2019