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More than 50 injured after school buses crash

 
Published May 23, 2013

North Webster, Ind.

sCHOOL BUSES CRASH, INJURING MORE THAN 50

A school bus slammed into the back of another one Wednesday afternoon, setting off a chain-reaction crash involving four buses in northern Indiana, leaving about 50 middle and high students with non-serious injuries and one driver seriously injured. The crash hurt 55 people, including three of the four bus drivers, Kosciusko County Sheriff's Department Sgt. Chad Hill said.

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