Pickup Driver Hurt in Wreck with School Bus

LINDEN (AP) – Police say a pickup has struck a school bus in a northeast Texas wreck that left the truck driver hurt and his vehicle on fire. Linden police say the accident happened Wednesday morning on Highway 59. Police say the pickup ended up lodged beneath the rear area of the bus, which did not catch fire. Officer Mike Rider says the school bus apparently had stopped to pick up children and that no students were hurt. Rider told The Associated Press that the pickup driver has injuries that are not believed to be life-threatening and he was transported to a hospital. The crash involved a Linden-Kildare Consolidated Independent School District bus. Superintendent James Cowley says the bus carried 13 students and a driver.