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Pickup driver, 8 students hurt in truck-bus collision
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BELTON, Mo. (AP) - A pickup truck hit a school bus nearly head-on on a Cass County road Wednesday afternoon, sending the pickup's driver and eight students to hospitals, authorities said.
The students' injuries were considered non-life threatening, while the 59-year-old truck driver was badly hurt and had to be flown to a hospital by air ambulance.
Forty students from seventh or eighth through 12th grades in Belton schools were on the bus when it was struck by the pickup on a county road, authorities said.
Belton is about 20 miles southeast of Kansas City.
The students' injuries were considered non-life threatening, while the 59-year-old truck driver was badly hurt and had to be flown to a hospital by air ambulance.
Forty students from seventh or eighth through 12th grades in Belton schools were on the bus when it was struck by the pickup on a county road, authorities said.
Belton is about 20 miles southeast of Kansas City.
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