UPDATE: Terry Giles, driver for school bus number three in Thursday’s crash involving three school buses in Dade County, located at the rear of the line, was cited on Friday for following too close, according to Jeff Hartline, assistant chief for the Trenton Police Department.
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ORIGINAL STORY: Four school buses crashed in two separate incidents in Dade and Whitfield counties around 3 p.m. Thursday. No major injuries were reported.
One school bus in Cohutta, Ga., crashed after a car collided with its rear bumper in the 4300 block of Cohutta Varnell Road.
A spokesperson for Georgia State Patrol confirmed there were eight children from Cohutta Elementary School on board. The children were all sitting in the first three rows of the bus and suffered no injuries. They were transferred to another bus and taken home.