Edison, NJ school bus carrying students crashes through corner of house

🚍 The bus was carrying nearly three dozen Edison students

🚍 The driver is credited with preventing further damage or injury

🚍 People were inside the house at the time

EDISON — A school bus slammed into the side of a house Wednesday morning, taking out a corner of the garage.

Edison Police Chief Thomas Bryan told New Jersey 101.5 that the brakes went out on the bus carrying 30 students to the John Adams Middle School around 8:15 a.m.

The driver of the bus is credited by Bryan for steering the bus away from at least three other houses.

"It could have been horrible but I think she did a great job to stay calm in the moment and missed houses and all the other objects to keep those kids safe," Officer Stephen Nappe, one of the responding officers, said at a press briefing Wednesday afternoon.

The children were off the bus by the time police arrived. Some parents were already on scene as the children had just been picked up.

Debris scattered around the yard

The bus went through a field and hit a fence scattering wood and debris across the yard before coming to a stop along the edge of the property.

Bryan said that three house cleaners were at the opposite end of the house when the bus hit and were not injured.

A total of two children were injured in the crash. One suffered an ankle injury and another a knee and head injury, according to the chief.

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