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SALT LAKE CITY — A school bus and semitruck collided in a Smithfield intersection Friday afternoon, but the bus driver and roughly two dozen high schoolers aboard were largely unharmed.
One boy was brought to a hospital as a precaution after the truck's cab crushed a front corner of the bus at Main Street and 100 North about 1:45 p.m., said Cache County School District spokesman Tim Smith. The Utah Highway Patrol was investigating the cause of the crash.
"The bus was hit in the front right corner — so, the passenger side — where there were no students or a bus driver sitting," Smith said. "We feel fortunate about that."
Pictures from the site of the crash show the bus with a bent side and top, and with its door and windshield dislodged.
The students were traveling from Green Canyon High School to Newton, Smith said. Both drivers were cooperating with troopers.
This story will be updated as more information becomes available.
