17 Injured in Bus Crash Saturday in Harmans Area

HARMANS, MD — Seventeen people were taken to two area hospitals on Saturday night after a bus collided with a car and then crashed through a guardrail and ended up in the woods, according to the Anne Arundel County Fire Department.

Firefighters responded at 8:40 p.m. to the scene of the accident, in the area of Dorsey Road and Shipley Avenue. Most of the bus passengers suffered minor injuries, but the car's two occupants, a 17-year-old boy and a 20-year-old woman, were transported to the R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore "with injuries that were possibly serious," the fire department said in a statement.

Eleven people on the bus were taken to the Baltimore Washington Medical Center and four to Howard County General Hospital, all with minor injuries, the fire department said. Six other passengers on the bus declined transport to the hospital.

The Anne Arundel firefighters were assisted by firefighters from BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport and Howard County. Ambulance buses from Anne Arundel and Howard counties took most of the accident victims to the hospital, the Anne Arundel fire department said.

Photo from Anne Arundel County Fire