New Bedford School Bus Crash Injures Seven

NEW BEDFORD — Six students and a bus driver have been taken to the hospital with minor injuries after a crash involving a school bus in the North End on Thursday afternoon.

New Bedford police spokesperson Lt. Scott Carola said the incident took place at around 4:40 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3.

A bus carrying students from the Global Learning Charter School was heading north on Ashley Boulevard when it was T-boned by a vehicle going west on Chafee Street, Carola said.

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Six teenaged students and the bus driver were taken to the hospital with what Carola described as "minor injuries."

Police gave the driver of the vehicle that hit the bus a citation for a stop sign violation.

No further details have been released.