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Bus Administrator: No Serious Injuries in Accident Involving Southern Cheerleaders
Five students were taken to Newton Hospital
A bus carrying cheerleaders from the Southern Regional School District to a cheer camp in the Poconos was involved in a head-on collision this morning.
Southern Regional Bus Administrator Michael Kane said another car crossed an intersection at Route 206 in Stanhope, NJ and skidded into the bus, causing minor injuries in five of the students. The students, one of the cheerleading coaches and the bus driver were taken to area hospitals for treatment of minor injuries. The remaining students continued onto a cheer camp in the Poconos.
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