School bus with kids on board crashes into Dorchester home
BOSTON - A school bus with kids on board crashed into a home on Wentworth Street in Dorchester Monday afternoon.
Two adults and two children were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The students were from the Codman Academy School.
Keyanna Jackson and another woman helped the students off the bus. "They were very frantic," Jackson said. "A lot of the kids were shaken up, a lot of them were crying."
Jackson says the bus driver was alert and told her the brakes weren't working. That's when Jackson and other neighbors worked to get the nine students off the bus and asked the kids for their parents' phone numbers.
Jackson said she started calling the families one by one. "Parents are frantic, they are nervous," Jackson said. "Everybody is just a little bit shaken up."
The Boston Fire Department says two students along with the bus driver and a monitor were taken to the hospital with minor injuries.
The bus was towed away, but firefighters were concerned about the house collapsing.
"It took down the support columns on the porch so that was our main concern," said Boston Fire Commissioner Paul Burke. "That's why it took so long. We didn't want the rest of the building coming down, there were no supports holding it up."
The man who lives in the house that was hit often sits on his front porch but didn't Monday afternoon. "I am blessed, I am safe, that's what counts," he said.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation.