4-year-old boy breaks leg in East Brunswick school bus crash

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Monday, January 16, 2017
4-year-old boy breaks leg in NJ school bus crash
Toni Yates has the latest details.

EAST BRUNSWICK, New Jersey (WABC) -- A school bus rear-ended a New Jersey Transit bus in East Brunswick Monday morning, leaving several children and one adults injured.

The accident happened on Route 18 South at Eggers Road just after 9 a.m.

There were approximately 14 students on board at the time, and East Brunswick police said they belonged to Yeshivat Netivot Montessori, a Jewish school in East Brunswick.

Here is video from NewsCopter 7 showing the scene of the crash:

NewsCopter 7 over the scene of a bus accident in East Brunswick

Three victims were rushed to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, while the rest were brought to the hospital in a mobile ambulance bus. The most serious injury appears to be a 4-year-old boy who suffered a broken leg, who was admitted. The other 13 were evaluated and released.

Nobody on the other bus, operated by Academy, was injured.