UPDATE: 29 children checked into hospital after school bus crash

Twenty-nine students of Summit Elementary School were sent to the hospital after a pick-up truck crashed into a school bus Tuesday morning.\nThe accident occurred at 8:45 a.m. on Rockport Road, about 145 feet south of Graham Drive. The school bus had stopped and was boarding students when a brown pick-up truck traveling southbound hit the bus head on.\n"The stop arm was out, and the lights were flashing," said Bloomington Police Department Detective Sgt. David Drake, reading from the police report.\nThe 17-year-old driver of the truck said he was attempting to stop for the bus when his wheels slid on the wet pavement, according to the report.\nThe bus driver, Cynthia K. Wood of Bloomington, 37, sustained injures to her head, face and arms, as well as suffering a bruised knee. Officer Amy Myers, who responded to the accident, reported that Wood's eye and face also appeared badly swollen.\nThe students and driver were picked up by another bus and taken to the hospital, where they were later released. The other driver appeared uninjured. Both the school bus, which was six years old, and the truck had to be towed from the scene.