{"id":60593,"date":"2025-03-05T18:51:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T23:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=60593"},"modified":"2025-03-05T18:52:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T23:52:26","slug":"21-elementary-school-students-on-bus-that-crashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2025\/03\/21-elementary-school-students-on-bus-that-crashed\/","title":{"rendered":"21 elementary school students on bus that crashed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nearly two dozen elementary school students were aboard a school bus when it collided with another vehicle, sending one person to the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"509\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img999.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img999.avif 900w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img999-300x170.avif 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img999-768x434.avif 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Rob Spicker, spokesperson for the Lee County School District, said 21 students were on the bus when it crashed in the area of Grant and Eisenhower boulevards, in Lehigh Acres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cuts and bruises some of them experienced did not require emergency transport to the hospital, Spicker said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A couple of parents did advise us they would take their child to a doctor as a precaution,&#8221; Spicker said in an emailed statement. &#8220;The remainder were either taken home by their parents or picked up by another bus and taken to school.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said on X that the crash sent one person to Gulf Coast Medical Center, in Fort Myers, as a trauma alert patient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly two dozen elementary school students were aboard a school bus when it collided with another vehicle, sending one person to the hospital. Rob Spicker, spokesperson for the Lee County&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":60594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[3001],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60595,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60593\/revisions\/60595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}