Foggy road, large broken tree limb played role in Rolesville High bus wreck
By Lora Lavigne
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North Carolina (WRAL) — Four people were injured in a wreck involving a school bus in Wendell Monday morning.
Sky 5 footage showed the Rolesville High School bus sitting in a field on Doc Proctor Road near Edgemont Road around 7 a.m.
The State Highway Patrol said there was heavy fog in the area when the bus struck a large broken tree limb that had fallen into the roadway. The bus then went off of the road to the right, striking a ditch before stopping in a field.
Of the 11 students on the bus, three had minor injuries but were not transported by EMS. Authorities said their parents picked them up at the scene. The bus driver was transported to Wake Medical Center in Wendell for treatment of minor injuries.
Students on the bus told WRAL they were physically lifted out of their seats during the crash.
“I was like, ‘What’s going on?’ And then it was just shaking and shaking and then we landed into the trees and all that. It was just like..wow,” Rolesville High student Mason Roberson, who was on the bus, told WRAL.
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