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31 students, 1 adult taken to hospitals after 3 school buses crash in Hyde Park on way to field trip

A crash involving three school buses sent more than 30 people, most of them children, to hospitals Friday morning. 

The caravan of buses were on their way to a field trip in Hyde Park when the crash occurred. 

According to the Chicago Fire Department, one adult and 31 students were taken to hospitals the buses crashed near Midway Plaisance and Dorchester Avenue. Officials said they were all listed in good condition. It was not clear how many were injured and how many were taken for precautionary examination. 

Video from the scene shows students on stretchers and paramedics treating students on the scene.   

Fire officials said the buses crashed as students and staff from Orland Park's Meadow Ridge Elementary were headed to a field trip to a museum.

The cause of the crash was not immediately known. 

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