UPDATE @ 4:40 p.m.: At least a couple of students are receiving medical attention in the pickup truck-school bus collision on Wayne Madison Road, but there are no serious injuries, Edgewood Schools Spokeswoman Pam Pratt said.
The children are from Edgewood Elementary, she said, and they are in grades 2 through 5.
District officials are telephoning parents and guardians to arrange rides home, Pratt said.
Police and medic crews are at a collision in the 3200 block of Wayne Madison Road involving a school bus and a pickup truck.
INITIAL REPORT
Several of the children on the bus have complained of neck and back pain. Medical personnel are evaluating the children and are taking some to a hospital.
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Crews were dispatched just after 4 p.m. on the report of a vehicle accident that been described as a pickup truck that rear-ended a school bus.
The accident occurred near Noah's Ark Child Development Center, 3259 Wayne Madison Road.
Edgewood Schools Superintendent Russ Fussnecker and other district officials are on the way to the scene.
We have a crew on the way to check out the accident. We will update this developing report.