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1 dead in crash involving school bus on Houston’s SW Freeway

No injuries were reported on the bus

Crash involving school bus on US 59 (Houston Transtar)

HOUSTON – A crash involving a school bus on the Southwest Freeway has left one person dead Saturday.

The Houston Police Department said the crash was reported at 4:11 p.m. in the southbound lanes of the Southwest Freeway near Fountain View.

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Police said no one on the bus was injured, but a person in another vehicle involved in the crash was killed.

Kristyn Cathey of Alief ISD said that the bus was one of two busses returning from a field trip with students from Kerr High School. She also confirmed that the bus was rear-ended, and the bus driver and students were not injured.


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