ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. — No one is hurt after a crash involving a school bus crash in Elizabeth City on Thursday.
According to the Elizabeth City Police Department, the crash happened just before 4 p.m. near the intersection of Halstead Boulevard and Forest Park Road.
Police say that Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools (ECPPS) school bus #208 and a 2021 Hyundai Kona SUV crashed at the intersection.
The driver of the Hyundai, a juvenile, received citations for "entering an intersection while a traffic signal was emitting a steady red circular light for traffic in defendant's direction of travel” and “failure to reduce speed as necessary to avoid colliding with a vehicle.”
Just two days earlier, another ECPPS school bus was involved in a crash close by at the intersection of US Highway 17 South and Forest Park Road.
In that crash, 26 people were treated at local hospitals.
