WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) - A car which was reported stolen crashed into two buses in a middle school parking lot, prompting officials to place the school on lockdown, officials said.
The car drove erratically through the parking lot on Wednesday and hit the first bus as it was dropping off students at Northwest Middle School, the Winston-Salem Journal reported. Police and school system officials say the car then veered and crashed head-on into a second bus.
There were 21 students on the first bus, and four of them complained of minor injuries but refused treatment, police said, The bus driver from the second bus had what police described as a minor abdominal injury and received treatment at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.
According to police, three teenagers got out of the vehicle and ran away, but officers and a police K9 found them nearby. Because they are juveniles, police said their names will not be released. It wasn’t clear if the teenagers were students at the school.
The school’s lockdown was lifted shortly after the incident.
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