Update on sports bus accident

CRISTA released this statement at 3:31am

This past evening, following a district championship basketball game in Mount Vernon, a bus carrying the King’s High School Boys Basketball team back to the King’s campus overturned at 205th Street after it exited I-5. On the bus were fifteen players, two coaches and the bus driver. 

No serious injuries resulted from the accident. Of the eighteen individuals on board the bus, eight players, one coach and the bus driver were taken to area hospitals for observation. At this time, all ten individuals have been released without any broken bones or other serious injury. 

No other vehicles were involved in this accident. As with every accident, the bus will be removed and evaluated by the State Patrol’s Major Accident Team. King’s Schools will work with this group in any way possible to help uncover the exact cause of the accident.