1 Child Killed, 14 injured in Arlington School Bus Crash [View All]

[MountainLaurel]

One child was killed and more than a dozen were injured Monday morning when an Arlington County school bus collided with a trash truck at Courthouse Road and Columbia Pike about 8:40 a.m.

The bus was carrying students to Hoffman-Boston Elementary School in Arlington. Both the driver of the school bus and the driver of the trash truck were critically injured and were transported to area hospitals.

Chief Carol Sauliner of the Arlington fire department said that 14 other students were also injured. Two students were in critical condition. The other 12 Hoffman-Boston students were transported to Virginia Hospital Center with minor injuries.

Linda Erdos, spokeswoman for Arlington County Public Schools, said that the school system had notified all of the parents of children on bus--number 113, route 271. Counselors have been sent to Hoffman-Boston, which serves students in kindergarten through fifth grade.

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