Driver Charged in Fiery School Bus Crash In Sandy Springs

SANDY SPRINGS, GA -- The driver of a passenger vehicle has been cited in a fiery school bus crash Thursday morning in Sandy Springs.

The bus was one of two carrying students to Ridgeview Middle School when it was rear-ended on Roswell Road at Glenridge Drive, said system spokeswoman Susan Hale.

Capt. Mike Lindstrom with the Sandy Springs Police Department said the agency received the call around 8:14 a.m. March 30 of the collision on the southbound side of Roswell Road just north of Glenridge Drive.

The two school buses were stopped at the traffic signal when the driver of a blue Kia Forte "just slammed into them," the captain said.

The vehicle skimmed the first bus, but ran into and got lodged underneath the second bus, he added.

The first bus had 34 students on it while the second bus, which caught fire, 24 students. Nineteen middle school students suffered minor injuries and were transported to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite Hospital for treatment, Lindstrom said.

Hale said students were evacuated from the buses, and another bus was dispatched to pick up the students to take them to school.

“All of the other students either went home with their parents who arrived on the scene or went to school," Lindstrom told Patch.

The driver of the passenger vehicle, who was cited for failure to maintain lane, was transported to an area hospital for treatment.

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