The Legacy High School varsity football team will play its homecoming game on Friday, despite a school bus crash that killed the driver and hospitalized several coaches.
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– A pickup truck driver and a few students on a school bus were injured in a crash Tuesday morning in Polk County. The bus was one of three Adams 12 school buses that picked up Legacy students after they returned home from an out-of-state football game. There are five people who were injured that were taken to Children’s Hospital Colorado and they are “all in fair condition”. They’re also studying the bus for mechanical problems.
The pickup truck driver and three of the students on the bus were transported to area hospitals with minor injuries, according to a release from the FHP. The students have been released.
In this image made from video provided by KMGH/THEDENVERCHANNEL.COM, a school bus sits after crashing into a concrete pillar in Denver, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2016.
Sunday afternoon the Legacy Varsity and JV football teams were leaving DIA on buses after returning from a Friday night game in California.
There were 20 students on the bus going to Kathleen High School.
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“What were left with now is trying to explain why this crash occurred”, Farr said. The only event canceled is the junior varsity football game. He is now the Defensive Coordinator Coach at Legacy High School and was a former Head Coach at Thornton High School. “The Denver Police Department continues to investigate the cause of the accident and will provide updates as available”.
