Rome, Georgia School Bus Involved in Crash Thursday Evening

The return trip from a pre-season football game – turned scary Thursday night – as a bus carrying Rome High School football players was involved in a wreck in Polk County, Georgia.  The bus came to a rest on its side against a utility pole on the west side of the highway; Polk County Police then reported five people being taken to the hospital; the players were on their way back to Rome on Georgia 101 near Doc Moates Road and Old Rome Road at around 10:40pm – that was  after competing in a scrimmage at Rockmart High School.

Jim Alred with Rome City Schools said that all of the students, and school system employees, on that bus were accounted for – with “a few” of them being taken to the hospital by AdventHealth Redmond EMS.   Alred reportedly didn’t know of any major injuries following the wreck.  Students who did not need medical treatment, were put on another bus – and continued on to Rome High School.

A total of 24 people were on the bus at the time of the wreck according to Polk County Fire and Rescue Chief, Mike Hanuscin – 20 of them students.

(Jeremy Stewart, Polk Standard Journal/Rome News-Tribune)