School Bus Accident Near Schuylkill Expressway

One student was hurt in a school bus accident in the Wynnefield Heights neighborhood of Philadelphia on Thursday afternoon.

Witnesses on the scene told NBC10's Lu Ann Cahn that the bus had a mechanical issue and rolled into a tree on Neil Drive. That's near the intersection of City Avenue and Presidential Boulevard, right at the dividing line between the city and the suburbs.

A handful of students from St. Margarets and Waldron schools in Narberth, Montgomery County, were on the bus at the time.

One girl suffered a minor injury when she hit her head as the bus veered off the road.

She was being treated by paramedics on the scene.

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