Muskogee school bus headed to Special Olympics event involved in Oklahoma City interstate wreck
A Bartlesville school bus readies to unload children at Wayside Elementary Aug. 15, 2012, for their first day of school.
Photographer: Thomas Berger/ KJRH
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Posted: 01/09/2013
MUSKOGEE, Okla. - A Muskogee school bus headed to a Special Olympics swimming event is back on the road after a scare with a semi truck.
The bus was involved in a multi-vehicle accident on Interstate 240 near the Interstate 35 junction in Oklahoma City around 3:30 p.m., early reports indicate.
The Associated Press is reporting the bus was carrying 16 8- t0 10-year-olds as well as two adults. No one on the bus was injured, according to Muskogee Public Schools official Robert Brewster.
KFOR in Oklahoma City says the semi driver, who sustained a minor cut to his hand, is the only person to injured in the wreck.
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