6 students injured when school bus crashes into bridge in North Carolina

Six students were injured when a school bus carrying children from a charter school crashed into a bridge in Goldsboro, North Carolina, local officials said. The driver was airlifted to a hospital.

The single-vehicle crash happened at about 4 p.m. on Thursday at the bridge near North Carolina Street and West Vine Street in Goldsboro, about 50 miles southeast of Raleigh, according to City Councilwoman Brandi Matthews.

Nine children and two adults were on the bus at the time of the crash. The bus was carrying students from Dillard Charter Academy, Matthews said.

Six students were taken to UNC Health Wayne with non-life-threatening injuries. The driver was airlifted to ECU Health Medical Center in Greenville, while the bus monitor was also on board, but officials did not immediately say whether the monitor was injured.

Photos from the scene showed the yellow school bus wedged under the bridge, with heavy damage to the front and roof area. The bus appeared to have struck the bridge and become partially pinned beneath the structure, with emergency crews working around the vehicle.

Goldsboro police and firefighters responded to the scene after the crash. No additional details about the circumstances of the accident were immediately released.