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LBFD: Bus Accident Sends Child to Hospital
Collision on Long Beach Boulevard involved 12 children on camp vehicle.
A child was transported to a local hospital after a mini-bus and van collided in Long Beach on Friday morning.
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According to the Long Beach Fire Department, 12 children, ages 7 to 11, were on a mini-bus when it was involved in an accident with a van at Long Beach Boulevard and East Pine Street.
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“Only one child was taken to South Nassau [Communities Hospital in Oceanside] with an ankle injury,” LBFD Commissioner Scott Kemins told Patch. “All the other children refused medical aid and went on another bus and continued to camp."
Lt. Eric Cregeen, a spokesman for the Long Beach Police Department, said that all of the children’s’ parents were notified at the accident scene. Police said they didn't know the destination of the bus.
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The LBPD responded with an ambulance, engine truck and heavy rescue truck, and the Island Park and Point Lookout-Lido fire departments each assisted with an ambulance, said LBFD Commissioner Scott Kemins. The bus belongs to the Five Towns-based Independent Coach Corporation.
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