Dozens hurt in NZ school bus crash

EducationHQ News Team

By EducationHQ News Team
Published November 18, 2014

None of the secondary school students aboard a bus that crashed into a ditch in New Zealand was hurt badly enough to warrant hospital admission.

WELLINGTON, Nov 17 - About 50 people, including students from Auckland's Howick College, were on the bus that crashed near Thames ...

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