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More than a dozen reported injured in Lancaster County school bus accident.

The bus carrying Mennonite school children flipped on its side when it was hit by a car that left the scene.

    by Mari A. Schaefer
    Published 

Police are looking for a car driver in a hit-and-run crash that overturned a school bus in Lancaster County Wednesday morning, reportedly injuring more than a dozen people, mostly Mennonite students on the bus.

The incident happened just before 8 a.m. at Lincoln Highway East (Route 30) and Route 896 in East Lampeter Township, LancasterOnline reported.

The bus was transporting Mennonite children to school.

Twelve students, between 13 and 16 years, the bus driver and the driver of the other car had all been released from the hospital by noon, Mary Ann Eckard, spokesperson for Lancaster General Hospital told LancasterOnline.

One student was airlifted to an area children’s hospital, another transferred to another hospital, Echard said.

The accident occurred when a car allegedly tried to pass an over-sized load, collided with the escort vehicle and then spun into the school bus, WGAL reported. The bus then flipped onto its side. The car left the scene. It was described as a light colored sedan, possibly newer, with front end damage being driven by a man with short hair east on Route 30, WGAL reported.

On Monday, 29 students and a teacher from at C.W. Henry School in Philadelphia injured in the crash in Maryland as they were on their way to Washington for a a class trip.