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Fifteen students taken to hospital after school bus crash in Connecticut

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Fifteen students have been taken to Yale New Haven Hospital after a school bus crash in West Haven on Thursday morning. Police said the injuries appear to be minor.

A school bus transporting students to the Jepson Magnet School in New Haven and a truck with a trailer collided in the area of Campbell Street and Terrace Avenue just before 9 a.m., according to police and school officials.

School officials said 15 students were on the bus and they were all taken to the hospital to be checked out. There were no reports of major injuries.

The drivers do not appear to have been injured.

The crash caused what appeared to be minor damage to the front of the bus and it was towed from the scene.

The Yale SHARP (Sponsor Hospital Area Response Physician) Team is always activated for situations like this, according to officials.

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