Driver cited in rollover Burke Co. school bus crash has speeding history [Video]

HILDEBRAN, N.C. (WBTV) — Nine students, a bus driver, and a bus monitor were hurt during a bus crash in Burke County Tuesday morning, according to school officials and highway patrol.

Troopers say the nine children and driver were taken to various hospitals with ‘non-life-threatening’ injuries. The bus monitor became partially entrapped in the bus and was airlifted with serious injuries to Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, reports stated.

At about noon, school officials reported that all the students and the driver had been released from the hospitals they had been taken to. The crash happened around 7:25 a.m. along Johnson Bridge Road near Old NC 10.

Authorities said the driver was traveling west on the roadway, lost control, ran off the right side, struck a ditch, and overturned. That diver was cited for failure to maintain lane control.

State officials identified the driver as Carol Barnes from …