GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Police and firefighters are investigating after a black BMW 328a slammed into a school bus in Montgomery County Friday morning. Firefighters with Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services said the school bus did not have any children aboard at the time of the crash, but police later said six students were onboard. None of the children on the bus were seriously injured.
Emergency crews were called to the area of East Village Avenue and Plum Creek Road just before 9 a.m. for a report of a crash. Firefighters said two people, a young adult and a child in the BMW, were taken to an area hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Montgomery County Police are still looking into what led up to the crash. The preliminary investigation has revealed that the school bus was turning left from Plum Creek Road onto East Village Avenue when it was struck by the BMW traveling on East Village Avenue.
The students were headed to Forest Oak Middle School when the crash happened, police said. They ask anyone who was on the bus to contact detectives with the Crash Reconstruction Unit at 240-773-6620.
Additional details were not immediately available Friday.