HOUSTON (KPRC) -- More than a dozen people were injured Tuesday when a school bus was involved in a multivehicle crash in northwest Harris County.
Houston police said a privately-owned school bus hit the back of a pickup truck stopped at a red light on the North Beltway 8 feeder road at Ella Boulevard, causing a chain-reaction wreck at 8 a.m. Five vehicles, including the bus, were involved in the collision.
"They were all stopped here and the next thing you know, there was a chain reaction. We haven't interviewed everybody yet to find out what happened," said V. Rogers with the Houston Police Department.
Investigators said 10 students, the bus driver and two drivers from other vehicles were taken to Northwest Memorial Hermann Hospital, Doctors Hospital and Houston Northwest Medical Center. Police said all the victims are in stable condition.
Rhonda Collins' 19-year-old son, Amos, was one of the students on the bus. He told his mother it was terrifying.
"Right now, they got him in X-ray because he's complaining about his back and neck," Collins said. "(The bus driver) was trying to stop, but she couldn't."
The school bus was owned by AFC Transportation. The students were on their way to JJAEP Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Program, an alternative school.
The Houston Police Department is investigating the cause of the crash.
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