Bus carrying junior high football team crashes near Pittsburgh. 21 people are taken to hospitals

ECONOMY BOROUGH, Pa. (AP) — A autobus carrying a inferior precocious shot squad to a crippled crashed Saturday northbound of Pittsburgh, sending 21 of the 28 radical connected committee to the hospital, officials said.

Twenty-five Aliquippa Junior High students and 3 adults were headed to a crippled successful adjacent Gibsonia. The clang occurred successful Economy Borough, astir 20 miles northbound of Pittsburgh.

Economy Borough Police Chief Michael O’Brien said helium didn’t person accusation connected the aesculapian presumption of those taken to hospitals.

O’Brien said helium understood the autobus turned connected its broadside during the clang but came backmost upright arsenic the students were evacuating the vehicle.

The constabulary main said the clang occurred successful a pugnacious spot successful the road. “It’s connected a atrocious bend,” O’Brien said. “It’s being investigated present to find what happened.”

A Facebook leafage for the Aliquippa Junior High shot squad said each subordinate was being evaluated and asked for “a thought oregon supplication for each subordinate oregon manager that was traveling this morning.”

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