Driver hops curb, strikes 9 students during after school pickup in Iowa

Nine students were injured connected Tuesday aft a operator struck them with a conveyance astatine a schoolhouse successful Ankeny, Iowa, according to officials.

The incidental happened astir 3:15 p.m. arsenic students were being picked up from St. Luke’s Catholic School connected NW Weigel Drive, metropolis constabulary and occurrence officials said astatine a quality conference.

A conveyance successful the pickup enactment jumped the curb and struck the students, officials said.

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Nine students were injured aft a operator struck them with a conveyance astatine a schoolhouse successful Ankeny, Iowa. (St. Luke the Evangelist Catholic School)

Several parents successful enactment provided assistance to the children until exigency responders arrived astatine the scene. The 9 victims were past rushed to section hospitals.

Some of the students who were struck suffered superior injuries, according to officials. Their ages and conditions were not made publically available, but the schoolhouse teaches students from kindergarten done eighth grade.

The driver, who has not been identified, was not injured and remained astatine the country aft the incident.

A conveyance successful the pickup enactment jumped the curb and struck aggregate students. (Ankeny Police)

Sgt. Trevor McGraw, a spokesperson for the Ankeny Police Department, told reporters that the incidental did not look to beryllium an intentional enactment of violence.

Investigators are continuing to probe what whitethorn person caused the collision.

People were asked to debar the country to let exigency responders to entree the scene.

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Police said the incidental did not look to beryllium an intentional enactment of violence. (Ankeny Police)

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"Thank you to parents from the schoolhouse pickup enactment who assisted the injured instantly portion exigency services were connected the way," metropolis officials said. "Thank you to teachers and unit for assisting injured students and students who witnessed the traumatic incident."

The Des Moines Diocese told WHO 13: "Please cognize that we commune for the families progressive and for the archetypal responders who assisted."