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OKC School Bus Carrying 22 Middle Schoolers Collides With Sedan on Lake Hefner Parkway; No Students Hurt
A bus carrying 22 John Marshall Enterprise Middle School students was involved in a crash with a sedan on northbound Lake Hefner Parkway near NW 56th Street Tuesday morning. None of the students were injured, but the sedan sustained significant damage and authorities have not said whether its occupants were hurt.
A school bus carrying 22 students from John Marshall Enterprise Middle School was involved in a collision with a sedan Tuesday morning on a busy northwest Oklahoma City highway, but none of the children aboard were injured, authorities said.
The crash happened shortly before 8:30 a.m. in the northbound lanes of Lake Hefner Parkway near Northwest 56th Street, according to police. The bus, an Oklahoma City Public Schools vehicle, came to a stop on the shoulder, while the sedan involved in the collision appeared to have sustained significant damage. The bus itself did not appear to be damaged.
Police confirmed that 22 students were on board at the time of the crash and that all of them were unharmed. It was not immediately clear whether anyone in the sedan was injured. The collision was classified as an injury accident, and an ambulance was seen at the scene, though it eventually departed without its emergency lights activated.
Oklahoma City Public Schools officials said the students were from John Marshall Enterprise Middle School. The district did not immediately provide additional details about the crash or whether the bus was on a regular route at the time.
The cause of the collision remains under investigation. Lake Hefner Parkway is a major commuter corridor in northwest Oklahoma City, and the morning crash occurred during the height of the school run and rush hour, when traffic volumes on the parkway are typically heavy.
No further information about the sedan's occupants or the circumstances leading up to the crash was available Tuesday morning.