Knoxville, TN – Two buses carrying children home from an intermediate and a primary school collided on a Tennessee highway, killing two children and an adult.
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Another 23 people were injured in the Tuesday afternoon crash.
The crash happened on Asheville Highway at 2:50 p.m., a Knoxville Police representative said, but she could not confirm other details.
Local media, including the Knoxville News Sentinel, have said that three people died, citing local officials.
Police did not immediately say what caused the crash that sent one of the buses over on its side Tuesday afternoon.
Amanda Johnson, a spokeswoman for Knox County Schools, said that the buses served Chilhowee Intermediate School and Sunnyview Primary School in the eastern Tennessee city.
Twenty children were brought to East Tennessee Children’s Hospital, all with non-life threatening injuries, said spokeswoman Erica Estep.
