Child and man killed after school bus taking 44 preschoolers from zoo crash outside Austin, DPS says

AUSTIN, Texas -- Dozens of pre-kindergarteners were coming backmost from a tract travel erstwhile their schoolhouse autobus was progressive successful a deadly clang connected Friday successful the Texas Hill Country, according to officials.

Texas Department of Public Safety told ABC News 2 people, including 1 pupil aboard the schoolhouse bus, were killed.

The Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Service said the clang happened astatine 2:17 p.m. connected State Highway 21 adjacent the Travis/Bastrop County line, astir 50 miles eastbound of downtown Austin.

The EMS posted astir the clang connected X, formerly known arsenic Twitter, saying crews responded to a clang involving astatine slightest 40 people.

In a quality release, Hays Consolidated Independent School District confirmed that 44 students and 11 adults were connected the schoolhouse autobus during the large crash.

The territory said the autobus was carrying pre-kindergarten students from Tom Green Elementary School returning from a tract travel to the Bastrop Zoo.

"Parents of students connected the autobus person been notified straight from the campus. The territory is successful the process of conducting reunification. Hays CISD proscription staff, counselors, information and information personnel, and different administrators person each joined archetypal responders either astatine the mishap country oregon astatine the reunification location," the territory said.

Texas DPS told ABC News that the "very superior accident" progressive the schoolhouse bus, a Dodge Charger with passengers, and a factual truck.

Officials said helicopters took 4 patients to St. David's South Austin Medical Center, and 3 others were driven to the hospital.

DPS said a antheral driving the Dodge Charger and a kid from the schoolhouse autobus died.

Details astir the crash's origin and the victims' ages oregon conditions were not instantly provided.

Bastrop County is included successful the Austin-Round Rock, Texas, metropolitan statistical area.

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