12 children hurt in school bus crash in Monroe Township, New Jersey, officials say

Twelve children and two adults were taken to the hospital after a crash involving a school bus and two dump trucks in Monroe Township, New Jersey, on Thursday, police said.

Emergency crews responded to the scene of the crash on the 700 block of North Tuckahoe Road. Police said the crash involved five vehicles, including a school bus and two commercial dump trucks.

According to police, a commercial dump truck driving north on North Tuckahoe Road failed to see traffic stopped for a school bus. Police said the dump truck rear-ended a vehicle with an adult woman and three minors. They said the collision led to the vehicle striking the school bus, which then hit the rear of another dump truck.

Police said a minor was trapped in the rear seat of a vehicle and had to be freed by first responders.

Fourteen people were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said. They said the school bus had nine children and the bus driver on it. They said all have either been released from the hospital or are in stable condition.

North Tuckahoe Road was closed in Monroe Township between Glassboro and Clayton roads because of the crash but has since reopened, Gloucester County Office of Emergency Management said in a post on Facebook. 

The crash remains under investigation and the company associated with the dump trucks is cooperating, police said.