Felony DUI charges were pending against a semi driver who police say ran a red light and crashed into a bus carrying 23 students and two hockey coaches from St. Ignatius College Prep over the weekend in Indiana.
The accident occurred around 8 p.m. Saturday in Warsaw, about 50 miles from South Bend, as the school’s junior varsity hockey team was headed to a hotel after competing in a tournament at Culver Military Academy.
Ten others on the bus were uninjured, police said. All were taken by another school bus to Lutheran Kosciusko Hospital, where officers notified relatives, police said. The students are 14 to 17 years old. The semi driver continued west and was stopped less than a mile away after driving off the road and into a ditch, police said. Police officers on the scene "detected a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage on his person and in the cab of the semi," according to police.Police said they already were responding to calls reporting a semi driver "swerving into other lanes and driving at excessive speed" before being alerted that the driver had crashed into the school bus.
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