School Bus Crashes in Del.

One person is injured and bus driver is cited, according to police.

A school bus was involved in a four-vehicle crash in Newark, Del. Wednesday morning.

Three students and an aide were on the bus when it hit the back of a car on state route 896, according to Delaware State Police.

The bus driver, Glenn D. Matthew, 53, failed to see traffic stopped in front of him for a red light and struck the rear of a car, investigators say.

The car then hit the rear of a pickup truck,  which then hit the rear of another pickup truck, police say.

The driver of the car, Meghan Wilks, 29, was taken to the hospital with what police are calling non-life threatening injuries.
   
No one on board the bus was hurt.

Matthew has been cited by troopers for Inattentive Driving.

Also on Wednesday, a car crashed into the back of an empty school bus at Sedgley and Lehigh Avenues in Philadelphia around 6:50 a.m., according to Philadelphia Police.

The driver of the car was hurt in that crash and hospitalized in stable condition.

These are the latest area crashes involving a school bus in recent days. Last week one child died and others were hurt when a bus and a dump truck collided in Chesterfield, N.J. and Tuesday a school bus and three other vehicles were involved in a crash in Upper Deerfield Township, N.J.


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