HAZARD, Ky. — A school bus crash in southeast Kentucky has injured 15 people after the driver swerved off the road to avoid hitting a deer.
Chief Deputy Tony Eversole of the Perry County sheriff's office said the single-vehicle crash occurred around 9 a.m. Monday as the driver was traveling on Highway 28 near Gays Creek, about 106 miles southeast of Lexington. The driver swerved to miss a deer, went off the road and struck a tree. Had the tree not been there, Eversole said, the crash could have been "a lot worse."
Eversole said the bus driver and 14 students were transported at a local hospital with injuries that weren't life-threatening.
The students were being taken from Buckhorn School to a vocational school when the crash occurred.