San Diego
Sixteen children from Clay Elementary School complained of back and neck pains Monday afternoon after the school bus they were in braked to avoid crashing into the back of a car that stopped abruptly in a San Diego intersection, a California Highway Patrol spokesman said.
The bus driver for the San Diego Unified School District told investigators that the driver of a green Toyota stopped abruptly on Euclid Avenue near the intersection of Wightman Street after signaling to make a turn.
Sixteen children, ages 8 to 12, complained of pain after the bus came to a sudden stop, and ambulances took six to the hospital, the CHP spokesman said.
A Villa View Community Hospital spokeswoman said the four children admitted there were treated and released. A Hillside Hospital spokeswoman would not release any information on the two children who were reported to have been admitted there.
CHP officers were seeking the driver of the car.
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