Police: Box truck rear-ends school bus, 1 dead, 7 injured
ALMA, Ga. A box truck rear-ended a school bus that had stopped Wednesday to unload students in rural southeast Georgia, leaving at least six students and the bus driver injured, police said. Authorities said the injured truck driver died later in a hospital. The Georgia State Patrol said the school bus had stopped minutes after 3:30 p.m. on Georgia highway 4 in Bacon County when, a preliminary investigation showed, the Ryder truck struck the back of the bus. The State Patrol added that the bus driver, Jerry Sweat, also was injured and taken to the same hospital. A photograph published online by WSAV showed the yellow school bus with its back end and rear exit door caved in.