Bus, Truck Crash On NJ Turnpike, At Least 15 Hurt: Police

Fifteen people were hospitalized after a bus and a truck collided on the New Jersey Turnpike Wednesday morning, according to New Jersey State Police. None of the injuries were serious.

There were 51 people on the bus charter bus, which collided with a tractor trailer at about 9:10 a.m. on the northbound side of the New Jersey Turnpike, near mile marker 58.7 in Hamilton Township, Mercer County, police said. There were children on the bus, but police weren't sure how many, or how many of the injured were children.

Fifteen were taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in Hamilton Township. The others were taken to the Woodrow Wilson Service area, and are awaiting another bus.

No information was available on the tractor trailer. Two lanes of the turnpike were closed for about one hour, 15 minutes, and have since reopened, police said.

At least one stretcher was visible as people gathered along the highway, according to NBC 10. One woman appeared to have injured her ankle, but wasn't hospitalized.

Both vehicles were damaged, with the bus suffering heavy damage to its front end, according to Fox 29.

The bus was en route from North Carolina to New York City, and was about an hour away from its destination at the time of the crash, according to CBS 3. A passenger on the bus told the news station that the bus rear-ended the truck.