Two Kenwood Students Killed in School Bus Crash

Two students from Kenwood Middle School in Clarksville, Tennessee, were killed and at least seven others injured Friday when the school bus they were riding collided with a Tennessee Department of Transportation dump truck and a Chevrolet Trailblazer on Highway 70 in Carroll County.

The crash occurred around noon as the bus, carrying 25 students and five adults, traveled west toward Jackson for a field trip, according to the Clarksville-Montgomery County School System. Maj. Travis Plotzer, a spokesperson for the Tennessee Highway Patrol, said the exact cause remained under investigation, but preliminary findings indicated the state dump truck did not contribute to the collision. Plotzer described the incident during a news conference as a situation no parent should face.

Emergency responders transported at least seven people by air ambulance to hospitals across the state. Four of those patients, all students, were taken to Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville, where a hospital spokesperson confirmed they were in stable condition late Friday. An additional 19 individuals from the bus were evaluated at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Carroll County. A...