Lionel Brown, Assistant Superintendent for Florence School District One, says a car hit the rear left side of a school bus Thursday morning on Pygatt Road in Florence County.
Brown says the driver of the car was charged with making an improper turn.
There were 34 students on the bus headed to Southside Middle and South Florence High schools.
Brown says all of the students were checked out by a school nurse and were taken to school.
He says while none of them showed any visible injuries, the district is still waiting on the nurse's examination report.
This is the second school bus accident involving a Florence School District One school bus in two days.
Wednesday morning, school officials say a driver of a pickup truck hit a bus in the back on Southborough Road in Florence County. There were two students on the bus and officials say they weren't injured. We're told the driver of the pickup truck was taken to a hospital for his injuries.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration works to reduce school-bus related crashes, injuries and fatalities through both behavioral programs and vehicle regulations.
The agency says an average of 19 school-age children die in school transportation-related traffic crashes each year (13 occupants of school transportation vehicles and 6 pedestrians).
However, according to School Bus Information Clearinghouse or SBIC, which is service of the National Association For Pupil Transportation says there is no safer way to transport a child than in a school bus.
SBIC says fatal crashes involving school bus occupants are extremely rare events, even though school buses serve daily in every community-a remarkable 8.8 billion student "to-and-from school" trips annually. Every school day, some 450,000 yellow school buses transport more than 24 million children to and from schools and school-related activities.
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