Eighteen Rockaway Valley School students were on the bus when it struck a utility pole and wrought iron fence on Valley Road near a church cemetery, the article says.
A teacher or aide guided the students out the back door and onto another bus that took them back to the school, ABC7 reports.
The crash was under investigation as of 6:30 p.m. Friday.
Photo by Anthony Johnson ABC7.
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