Seven children were injured Thursday when a school bus veered off the road in suburban New York, hit two parked cars and crashed into a house, police said.
The crash happened just before 9am in the village of New Hempstead in Rockland County, the Ramapo police department said in a statement.
A bus carrying 21 children to school veered off the road, scraped against a telephone pole, hit a tree and then hit two unoccupied vehicles, police said. The bus then continued down a grassy hill, striking several trees and ultimately crashing into the house, they said.
![Orthodox Jewish families, some of whose children were on the bus, look at the site of a school bus accident in the village of New Hempstead in Rockland County. Photo / AP](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/QIUM3MRIX5EPJPDJ67ZF3FUA3A.jpg?auth=143d0b88564a66af2546a7fa91a67b123751755669e7a29b82b2aec7f6aef1b0&width=16&height=9&quality=70&smart=true)
The driver was taken to a hospital and treated for minor injuries, police said.