SWK/Hilltowns

Children taken to hospital after crash

HUNTINGTON (WWLP) – Two students and a school bus driver were taken to the hospital to be checked-out after a crash between the bus and a car in the western Hampshire County town of Huntington.
Wendy Long, a spokesperson for the Gateway Regional School District, told Westfield News media partner 22News that the bus was carrying five students to Littleville Elementary School and Gateway Regional Middle School when the accident happened on County Road.
Ambulances dispatched by the Hilltown Ambulance Service, the Westfield Fire Department and the Northampton emergency response center responded and Long said that, at the request of their parents, two of the children were taken to Noble Hospital to be examined as a precaution.
She said officials of the bus company asked that the bus driver also be taken to the hospital on a precautionary basis.

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