School bus collides with car in North Merrick, Nassau cops say

A bus carrying more than a dozen children to middle school collided with a car Wednesday morning in North Merrick, police said. A spokeswoman for the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District said none of the children was injured.

Nassau County police said it was not immediately clear if the driver of the car or the bus driver was injured.

The crash occurred on Merrick Avenue at 7:40 a.m., police said.

There were 16 students aboard the bus. The district said they were seventh and eighth-graders headed to Merrick Avenue Middle School.

The cause of the crash is under investigation and additional details were not available.

By John Valenti

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John Valenti, a reporter at Newsday since 1981, has been honored nationally by the Associated Press and Society of the Silurians for investigative, enterprise and breaking news reporting, as well as column writing, and is the author of “Swee'pea,” a book about former New York playground basketball star Lloyd Daniels. Valenti is featured in the Emmy Award-winning ESPN 30-for-30 film “Big Shot.”