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UPDATE: 15 taken to hospital after church van crashes in Cleveland TN

Sixteen kids and a bus driver were involved in a small church bus crashed in Cleveland, Tenn.
Sixteen kids and a bus driver were involved in a small church bus crashed in Cleveland, Tenn. Sixteen kids and a bus driver were involved in a small church bus crashed in Cleveland, Tenn.

photo Sixteen kids and a bus driver were involved in a small church bus crashed in Cleveland, Tenn.

Fourteen kids and a bus driver went to the hospital this morning after a small church bus crashed in Cleveland, Tenn., according to a news release from the police department.

Everyone on board was taken to SkyRidge Medical Center. Six of the passengers were treated and the remaining were evaluated, police said. Passengers were being released from the hospital at noon, a police spokeswoman said via e-mail.

The bus was from Hagood Avenue Baptist Church in Barnwell, South Carolina. It was heading north on Freewill Road when it left the roadway and hit a drain culvert.

The group was in Cleveland on a week-long missions trip, the release said.