DEWAYNE HOLLOWAY | The Nashville News
This Lakeside School District bus was involved in an accident on Friday along Highway 70 near Newhope. Several high school football players and a coach were treated and released for their injuries.
TERRICA HENDRIX
Reporter
NEWHOPE –Arkansas
State Police continue to
investigate the school
bus accident that occurred
on Friday afternoon
on Highway 70 in
Pike County.
At approximately
3:45 p.m., on Fri., Oct. 23,
Arkansas State Troopers
were dispatched to
a motor vehicle crash
involving a single vehicle.
The vehicle has been
identified as a Lakeside
School District bus that
had been transporting
football team members
to DeQueen, according to
a press release issued by
the ASP.
Don Pierce, Lakeside
athletic director, told the media that Coach H.E.
Burchard was injured in the
crash.
All injured students and
coaches are in stable condition,
Cook said, and the eight
students treated at Howard
Memorial Hospital was released
Friday night.
The crash scene was reported
to be along U.S. Highway
70 near the Newhope
community in Pike County.
“At this juncture of the
State Police Highway Patrol
Division investigation, State
Troopers know of eight students
who were transported
to a Nashville (Howard Memorial)
hospital by parents
or other family members.
Two students, along with
the bus driver, identified
as an assistant coach, were
transported to a Hot Springs
hospital. None of the injuries
are believed to be life threatening.
The school bus was
traveling westbound and for
reasons not certain yet in the
investigation, veered across
the eastbound lane striking
an embankment along the
south side of the highway,”
according to the press release
issued Friday evening.
The bus was headed to De
Queen, where Lakeside was
scheduled to play the Leopards.
The game has been
rescheduled for Monday.