{"id":187566,"date":"2019-12-20T13:17:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T19:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=187566"},"modified":"2019-12-23T13:51:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T19:51:54","slug":"school-bus-train-crash-thurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=187566","title":{"rendered":"Details Richland County School Bus – Train crash"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Update:<\/p>\n

Lidgerwood, ND . (NDHP)\u2014 Four students were hospitalized\u00a0\u00a0 Thursday afternoon, December 19, when the school bus they were riding was struck by a train at a Richland County railroad crossing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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North Dakota Highway Patrol, Captain Bryan Niewind reports, the crash happened about 3:40 p.m., shortly after school ended.<\/p>\n

The bus carrying 18 students in grades K-12, was headed north through a railroad crossing on the northeast outskirts of Lidgerwood.<\/p>\n

A slow-moving eastbound Dakota Valley & Western Railroad train, with ten loaded grain rail cars,\u00a0 hit the bus on its rear driver-side axle, causing it to rotate counterclockwise and roll onto its passenger side.<\/p>\n

The Highway Patrol has identified the locomotive engineer as 51 year old Michael Mallett of Oakes, who was not injured.<\/p>\n

The conductor, 51 year old Terry Roney, of Oakes, who was not injured.<\/p>\n

The school bus driver, 69 year old Michael Skroch, or Lidgerwood, was not injured.<\/p>\n

Students injured included an eight year old female, who was transported by ambulance, a 15 year old female who was transported by Sanford Lifeflight, to a Fargo hospital, 10 year old male, who was transported by his parents to a hospital, and a 14 year old female, transported by ambulance.\u00a0 The students ranged in age from six years old to 15 years old.<\/p>\n

The names of the juveniles are not be released by the Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n

Assisting at the scene were: the Richland County Sheriff’s Office, Lidgerwood Fire Department & Ambulance, Hankinson Fire Department & Ambulance, Wyndmere Ambulance, Richland Emergency Service, and Sanford LifeFlight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Previously..<\/p>\n

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(INFORUM)\u00a0 Lidgerwood School Board President Sadie Siemieniewski said three students were taken to the hospital by ambulance.\u00a0 A fourth student was airlifted to a Fargo hospital, though she added that the bus passengers were “very lucky” no one suffered serious injuries. The patrol’s crash report did not list any injuries for the 69-year-old bus driver.<\/p>\n

Lidgerwood Public School said the bus carries students in kindergarten through 12th grade.<\/p>\n

Siemieniewski said Thursday evening that the Lidgerwood girls basketball game that was scheduled for Thursday night was canceled.<\/p>\n

Investigators from the North Dakota Highway Patrol could be seen reconstructing the crash Thursday night and were still on scene around 7:30 p.m. Niewind said the patrol is releasing more information on Friday.<\/p>\n

Lidgerwood is about 75 miles southwest of Fargo.<\/p>\n

Previously…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

(AP)\u00a0 School officials say three students were hurt when their bus collided with a train in North Dakota. The Lidgerwood Public School says the crash happened around 3:40 p.m. Thursday. Three students were taken by ambulance to a hospital. No other information was immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update: Lidgerwood, ND . (NDHP)\u2014 Four students were hospitalized\u00a0\u00a0 Thursday afternoon, December 19, when the school bus they were riding was struck by a train at a Richland County railroad crossing. North Dakota Highway Patrol, Captain Bryan Niewind reports, the crash happened about 3:40 p.m., shortly after school ended. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":62605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187566"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187740,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187566\/revisions\/187740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}