At least two people were killed and several more injured when a school bus carrying more than three dozen prekindergarten students Friday afternoon was involved in a crash on a highway in Bastrop County, Texas, east of Austin, state officials said. The Texas Department of Public Safety confirmed to CBS News that the incident involved a school bus, a concrete truck and a third vehicle on State Highway 21. Multiple patients were airlifted to area hospitals, officials said.
The Hays Consolidated Independent School District confirmed in a statement that the school bus was carrying pre-K students from Tom Green Elementary School returning from a field trip to the Bastrop Zoo when a 'serious accident' occurred. The bus was carrying 44 students and 11 adults at the time of the crash, the district said.A little before 3 p.m.