Bus carrying junior highschool soccer crew crashes in Economic system Bourough, Pennsylvania, 21 individuals hospitalized, officers say

ECONOMY BOROUGH, Pa. — A bus carrying a junior excessive soccer crew to a sport crashed Saturday north of Pittsburgh, sending 21 of the 28 individuals on board to the hospital, officers mentioned.

Twenty-five Aliquippa Junior Excessive college students and three adults had been headed to a sport in close by Gibsonia. The crash occurred in Economic system Borough, about 20 miles north of Pittsburgh.

Economic system Borough Police Chief Michael O’Brien mentioned he did not have info on the medical standing of these taken to hospitals.

O’Brien mentioned he understood the bus turned on its facet throughout the crash however got here again upright as the scholars had been evacuating the car.

The police chief mentioned the crash occurred in a tricky spot within the street. “It is on a foul bend,” O’Brien mentioned. “It is being investigated now to find out what occurred.”

A Fb web page for the Aliquippa Junior Excessive soccer crew mentioned every participant was being evaluated and requested for “a thought or prayer for every participant or coach that was touring this morning.”