Nearly a dozen students in Brown County were taken to the hospital after their school bus was rear-ended by a pickup truck.It happened along Stephan Road in Sardinia.Students and parents we talked with called the scene frightening.Students on the bus said the crash came out of nowhere.The force of it all caused some to hit their heads on the seats and windows."It sounded like a bunch of metal just hitting together like really loud," Alyssa Davis said.It was a moment Davis, a sixth-grader, and her friends will share forever.A routine bus ride turned into the scene of an emergency."All of the sudden we heard this big boom and the bus had went up and down," Hailey Cecil said.Cecil is also a sixth-grader. She banged her head on the seat and window.The crash happened just after 3:30 p.m.Investigators believe the pickup was going about 20 to 25 mph.On board the bus were students from the Eastern School District, 11 to 16 years old.Eleven students and the bus driver were taken to the hospital with minor injuries.Parents picked up students who were not hurt."One got their neck hurt really bad, one was hyper-ventilating and a lot of kids got carried out on stretchers and I was just freaking out," Davis said.Police said the driver of the truck was a 16-year-old boy who was waving at a kid who had just gotten off the bus.Investigators said the teen driver told them he hit the gas when the bus moved forward from one stop, but didn't hit the brakes when the bus stopped again."I was looking around for my daughter and they was pulling kids off the bus doing triage over in the neighbor's yard," Allen Downing said.Downing woke up to the scene right in front of his house.His 12-year-old daughter was on the bus and is OK."Shocked. It's not very often I get to walk out my door and see all this mess going on in front of my house," Downing said.While some of the students have bumps and bruises, they are also overwhelmingly grateful."I'm just lucky that it wasn't any worse than it is, and that we have an awesome bus driver and she kept it calm when the car hit," Cecil said.Police said the damage to the bus was minor and mostly scratches.They said the pickup truck took the brunt of the impact.One neighbor described the pickup as totaled and estimated the hood was crunched in by a foot or more.Ohio State troopers said the teen driving the pickup was not taken to the hospital.Investigators told WLWT drugs and alcohol are not considered factors in the crash.Troopers said the teen was cited following the crash.