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UPDATE: 15 treated following school bus accident

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Updated: 11/01/2012 10:36 pm
HODGES, Ala. (WTVA) -- Fifteen people were taken to hospitals after a school bus accident Thursday afternoon in Franklin County, Alabama.

Authorities say 30 people were on a Franklin County School District bus from Vina High School when it struck a pickup truck at Highway 172 and Overton Farm Road near Hodges.

The accident happened around 3:15 p.m.

No one was killed, but 14 children suffered minor injuries.

The other person injured was the driver of the truck, 20-year-old Channing Haithcock of Vina, Alabama.

Haithcock was flown to North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo for treatment.
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