Charlotte firefighters needed to extricate multiple people from an accident involving a dump truck and school bus that injured over a dozen students and hospitalized two with serious injuries.
The head-on crash involved a Charlotte-Mecklenburg school bus carrying 40 students and a dump truck required multiple resources to extricate the drivers and triage and transport the injured parties.
Charlotte Fire officials said it took about 30 minutes to extricate the bus driver and close to an hour to free the dump truck driver from the vehicle, WCNC reported.
An operations supervisor for Medic Mecklenburg EMS said both drivers were conscious and stable at the scene. All the students injured were low priority and transferred to the hospital via an EMS bus.
