Three hurt in bus crash

PROGRESS - A Muleshoe school bus driver and two 10-year-old students were injured Monday afternoon when a tractor trailer rig collided with the rear of the parked bus near Progress on U.S. 84.

Muleshoe schools Superintendent R.L. Richards said all three were treated and released from the Muleshoe hospital on Monday night.

Richards said the bus had stopped to let a student off to go home. That student was not injured.

"The truck evidently went between two other vehicles and ran into the back of the bus," Richards said.

The superintendent said the bus was parked properly on the four-lane highway with its warning devices activated when the accident occurred.

Johnny Bures, a sergeant with the Texas Department of Public Safety, wrote in an email that the truck was traveling east-bound.

A car and van had stopped behind the bus, which had activated its red lights, Bures wrote.

"The truck ... failed to control speed and collided with the rear portions of the van and car before striking the bus," he wrote. He said the truck driver and occupants in the car and van escaped injury.

The accident happened about 4:30 p.m. CDT. Richards declined to name those injured and said he wasn't sure about the nature of their injuries.