Thirteen children and adults were taken to hospitals yesterday after a school bus crash in Greenwood County, South Carolina. School officials said the bus was carrying Westwood Elementary School students on a field trip.

There were 29 students and 5 adult passengers on board in addition to the bus driver.

The bus went off the right side of the road, hit a utility pole and a fence, and then traveled down an embankment.

Highway patrol said nine students were among the students were transported to hospitals. The bus driver was among those injured.

Abbeville County School District Superintendent Betty Jo Hall said one student and two adults were airlifted to a local hospital.

Hall said no one was in critical condition.