LEBANON, Ohio -- Seventeen children were transported to the hospital after two school buses collided in Lebanon on Tuesday.
Police say four buses, carrying students from Kings Junior High School, were headed to the Warren County Career Center near Drake and Miller roads when one of the buses crashed into the back of another around 11:40 a.m.
Investigators say the first bus was slowing for a changing traffic signal and the second bus failed to stop.
The students were transported to Bethesda Arrow Springs Hospital in Lebanon, Bethesda North, and Children's Liberty Campus.
Kings Local School District Superintendent, Dr. Valerie Browning, says the students were transported to the hospitals complaining of back and neck pain.
"We had a few students, about three, who initially complained of pain and then others who later complained of pain. Eventually 17 students who complained of neck or back pain were taken to the hospital," Browning explained.
Browning says the two bus drivers did have to submit to a drug test.
It's part of school policy anytime a driver is involved in an accident.
The students were all treated and released from the hospital.
