Seventeen people were taken to the hospital after a bus full of kindergartners and parents on a field trip crashed in Centreville, Maryland State Police said Thursday.
The bus had been taking the Kent County students to the National Zoo in Washington before the morning crash.
Just before 9 a.m., a Stevensville man driving a sport utility vehicle attempted to make a left turn onto southbound Route 213 and turned into the path of a charter bus carrying 17 children and 16 adults from Worton Elementary School, said Elena Russo, a state police spokeswoman.
The bus veered onto the shoulder to avoid a collision and hit a utility pole, landing on its side, she said.
Sixteen of the passengers on the bus were taken to hospitals in Grasonville, Easton and Annapolis, according to Russo; their injuries were not life-threatening. Carl Trenz Jr., 49, the driver and sole occupant of the SUV, a 2010 Volkswagen Touareg, also suffered injuries that were not life-threatening and was treated at an area hospital.
The driver of the 1990 MCI tour bus, Curtis A. Dorsey, 86, of Still Pond, refused medical treatment at the scene, state police said. Dorsey is the owner of Dorsey Transportation, the tour bus company hired for the trip.
State police said the Queen Anne's County state's attorney's office is reviewing the accident..