CUNNINGHAM, Ky., May 16 (UPI) -- A school bus swerved to miss a deer and rolled into a ditch in Kentucky Monday, killing one child and injuring many other students and adults, authorities said.
The Carlisle County school bus crashed about 3 p.m. on U.S. 62 near Cunningham in western Kentucky while the elementary school students and teachers were returning from a field trip to a sports complex, WPSD-TV reported. The Paducah TV station said two victims were airlifted to Cape Girardeau, Mo., and 20 others were taken by ambulance to local hospitals.
The county judge executive told WLEX-TV, Lexington, the children were kindergarten, first- and second-grade students. The official said the child who died had been thrown from the bus, and the two victims airlifted from the crash scene were a female teacher and female bus driver.
