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HAVRE DE GRACE, Md. — A bus carrying dozens of Pennsylvania school children to Washington, D.C., for a field trip overturned on Interstate 95 in northeastern Maryland on Monday, state police said.

The bus carrying 26 children, three chaperones, and the driver overturned at least once on the highway near Havre de Grace, Maryland State Police spokesman Greg Shipley said. One child and one adult were flown to hospitals in Maryland and Delaware and others are being taken to hospitals by ambulance, police said. No deaths have been reported.

One woman was flown to the University of Maryland Medical Center’s trauma center in Baltimore, but was still being triaged, the University of Maryland Medical System said in a statement. Seven to 10 patients with relatively minor injuries were expected to be taken to a hospital in Bel Air and another 12 to 15 patients were expected to be taken to a hospital in Havre de Grace, officials said.

The cause of the crash isn’t yet clear, but Shipley said a car was involved in some way and the driver is being interviewed. A group of Philadelphia police recruits on a commercial bus behind the overturned bus stopped to help, he said.

Philadelphia police said the students are from Charles W. Henry School in Philadelphia. The School District of Philadelphia plans a news conference on the crash on Monday afternoon.

Video from the scene showed a person on a stretcher being wheeled away from the overturned bus to a waiting medevac helicopter and others being carried to ambulances. There’s damage to the hill and a stretch of guardrail on the right side of the highway, where the bus rested on the guardrail. At least two other buses and several cars were stopped near the overturned white bus with no apparent markings.

Media outlets report that the bus was operated by Phoenixville, Pennsylvania-based charter company Werner Coach.

In this image made from video and provided by WBAL-TV, authorities investigate an overturned bus on Interstate 95, Monday, May 15, 2017 near Havre de Grace, Md. Cpl. Tyler Allaband of the Maryland State Police said by telephone that the bus overturned in the southbound lanes of the highway on Monday near the exit for Havre de Grace. He says several people are injured, but he did not know how many people or the extent of their injuries. (WBAL-TV via AP)
https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/web1_AP17135547712190-1.jpgIn this image made from video and provided by WBAL-TV, authorities investigate an overturned bus on Interstate 95, Monday, May 15, 2017 near Havre de Grace, Md. Cpl. Tyler Allaband of the Maryland State Police said by telephone that the bus overturned in the southbound lanes of the highway on Monday near the exit for Havre de Grace. He says several people are injured, but he did not know how many people or the extent of their injuries. (WBAL-TV via AP)

Associated Press