Student Suffers Severed Hand After School Bus Collides With A Truck

A traffic collision between a school bus and a truck in India's Haryana state Tuesday resulted in a student losing a hand and several others being injured.

The bus — a vehicle of the Dayanand Anglo Vedic public school in Fatehabad — was returning to school after picking up students from Ratia when it collided with the truck coming from the opposite side of the road near the village of Hamzapur, CNN-News18 reported.

A class 12 student identified as Aman allegedly had his elbow outside one of the school bus' windows when the accident happened, and this resulted in his hand being severed from the collision.

Three more students were injured as the glass windows of the school bus shattered in the crash, while several others suffered minor injuries.

Aman was initially admitted to the government hospital in Ratia, but he was later referred to Hisar.

The driver of the truck fled from the scene after the collision, according to the report.

Locals reached the site and pulled out the injured students. They also alerted authorities to dispatch an ambulance.

A similar incident happened in Unicoi County, Tennessee last week when a school bus carrying 8th grade students was involved in a traffic accident with a sports utility vehicle, which resulted in the car's elderly passenger dying and several students inside the bus being injured.

The Bluebird 2018 school bus was traveling on State Highway 81 South last Friday when it was rear-ended by a 2010 Ford Escape at around 2:40 p.m.

One of the SUV's passengers, 91-year-old Georgia Arrowood, died from injuries she sustained in the incident. She was transported to Unicoi County Hospital before being transferred to Johnson City Medical Center.

The SUV's driver, 70-year-old Thomas Cox, was also injured from the collision. He was requested to take alcohol and drug tests following the crash, the results of which are not yet known.

Four students out of the 40 aboard the school bus suffered minor injuries and were treated by responding medical personnel. The driver of the bus, Christopher Hatcher, 46, was also evaluated for injuries along with the teachers onboard the vehicle.

The bus sustained significant damage from the collision.

Charges in relation to the incident are still pending.