Twelve South Fulton students

were sent to the hospital Monday after a tractor trailer struck a bus.

Fulton County Schools spokesperson

Susan Hale said that at approximately 8 a.m. Monday morning one of the

county's buses transporting students to Creekside High School was traveling

on Ga. Highway 138 and had stopped at Windsor Forest Apartments to pick

up students when it was struck from behind by a tractor trailer.

Twenty-two Creekside students

were on board, and 12 of the students were transported to local hospitals

for observation after complaining of neck and back pain, Hale said.

Neither the driver of the school

bus nor the tractor trailer driver were injured and Union City Police,

as well as the Fulton County Schools Police Department investigated the

cause of this accident.