Fifteen people were injured Friday morning when a school bus and a car collided near downtown Marietta.
The crash happened about 7:15 a.m. at the busy intersection of Polk Street and the North Marietta Parkway, according to Marietta police spokesman David Baldwin.
Baldwin told the AJC that a car was turning left onto Polk Street from the North Marietta Parkway and “failed to yield to oncoming traffic and was t-boned by a school bus.”
A 12-year-old boy in the car was airlifted to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite with injuries that Baldwin said were life-threatening.
Baldwin said 13 children on the bus were taken to WellStar Kennestone Hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries. Two went by ambulance and the other 11 were taken to the hospital on another bus, he said.
The bus driver was also taken to WellStar Kennestone.
A Wellstar spokesman said just before 10 a.m. that all of those patients brought in to Kennestone had already been released, or would be released later in the morning.
The 37 students on bus 91-12 were headed to Marietta High School when the crash occurred, Marietta City Schools spokesman Thomas Algarin told the AJC. He said the seriously injured child from the car was a student at Marietta Middle School, which is a short distance down Polk Street from the crash site.
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