School Bus Driver Swerves To Avoid Cat, Crashes Into Home

A school bus with nearly two-dozen students onboard drove down a hill and crashed into a house Tuesday morning in southeast Charlotte, fire officials said.Bus 448, headed to Randolph IB Middle School, crashed on Briardale Drive, off W.T. Harris Boulevard, school officials said. The bus hit a black car when it rolled down the hill. The bus driver and 14 students were taken to local hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries, MEDIC said. There were a total of 23 students onboard at the time of the crash. MEDIC said six students were taken to Novant while the bus driver and eight other students were transported to Carolinas Medical Center.