A school bus overturned Monday morning on a central Washington highway, injuring dozens of children, including three seriously, before coming to rest at the edge of a field, authorities said.

The bus veered off the road, overcorrected and rolled on Highway 281 just south of Quincy, an agricultural region about 120 miles east of Seattle, said Lt. Scott Martin of the Washington State Patrol.

The bus came to rest on its passenger side, and all 39 students on board suffered injuries of some kind, though most were minor scrapes, bruises and bloody noses, Martin said. Three children were in serious condition, but none of the injuries was believed to be life-threatening.

One child was airlifted to the nearby city of Moses Lake, and two were taken to a hospital in Ephrata. The rest of the students went to the local Quincy Valley Medical Center, either for treatment or to be reconnected with their families.

The driver apparently was not injured, and no other vehicle was involved.

The Quincy School District covers about 450 square miles of farmland in central Washington’s Columbia River basin, which is home to thousands of acres of tree fruit, and potato and onion fields. The district serves 2,500 students.

“We are deeply concerned about the students and the driver,” the district’s superintendent, Burton Dickerson, told the Columbia Basin Herald. “The safety of all our students is our top priority. Student safety is the number one job of our bus drivers.”

Cause of the Yakima County Crash

Lt. Scott Martin of the Washington State Patrol stated that the cause of the crash is under investigation. Roads were bare and dry when the bus rolled. No other vehicles were involved in the incident.

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