Following the accident – which resulted in the roof of the bus being cut open, according to footage from the scene – the eastbound lanes of the highway were shut down as police conducted an investigation, according to CW affiliate WPIX.
That same morning, another crash happened about 50 miles northwest in Franklin, N.J., which involved two of the school district’s buses, according to local police.
“Currently there is one injury to a nine-year-old male student who was transported to the hospital,” the Franklin Township Police Department announced on Facebook on Thursday, noting that the child was the only one injured. “His parents have been notified and are currently with him at the hospital.”
The police department had no additional information to provide when contacted by PEOPLE.
The crashes are part of an unsettling trend in the state. Earlier this month, on Monday, March 10, a child was left with “serious injuries” and 13 others were also injured following a school bus crash on the Garden State Parkway. The bus was carrying 31 people in total.
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