4-Year-Old Boy Breaks Leg in East Brunswick School Bus Crash Monday

EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ - A 4-year-old boy broke his leg in the collision between an NJ Transit commuter bus and a school bus Monday morning on Rt. 18 in East Brunswick. The child was aboard the school bus, which was headed to a Jewish yeshiva in East Brunswick.

The school bus rear-ended the NJ Transit bus while it was stopped to pick up passengers on Rt. 18 Monday morning, police said. At 8:52 a.m. the NJ Transit commuter bus was stopped in the right lane of Rt. 18 south, just south of Eggers Street, picking up passengers. That's when a Kensington Company school bus, operated by a 45-year-old Perth Amboy man, drove into the back of it.

Four commuters on the NJ Transit bus complained of back, neck and leg pain, and minor injuries. But one 4-year-old boy aboard the school bus suffered a broken leg as well as lacerations. The school bus was taking the kids to Yeshivat Netivot Montessori, a Jewish school in East Brunswick, police told ABC New York.

14 students in total were aboard the school bus and they were all rushed to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick. Only the boy, however, was admitted. The other 13 children were released.

No charges have been filed yet in the accident, and the investigation remains ongoing, said Lieutenant Sean Goggins with the East Brunswick police.

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