Concord School Bus Crashes Into Utility Pole On Garvins Falls Road

CONCORD, NH — Concord fire and rescue teams and police were sent to a school bus crash on Monday.

Around 4:15 p.m., police and capital region fire dispatch began receiving reports of a bus crash at an unknown location on Garvins Falls Road.

Police dispatch told officers to be careful because there were confirmed live wires on the ground. The first arriving officer said she could not see anyone inside the bus and immediately blocked traffic from the street.

When firefighters arrived, they reported the bus had crashed into a utility pole that was down on the ground. Unitil was then called. The commander could not report any injuries or anyone at the scene but requested an ambulance.

However, at around 4:30 p.m., the commander said there were no injuries — with the driver and a single student passenger remaining on the bus due to the live wires.

Tower 1 was returned to service while Ambulance 1’s EMTs remained at the scene.

Just before 5:45 p.m., the power was shut off, and the driver and student were removed from the bus. According to scanner chatter, they were being evaluated for injuries.

The road is still closed to traffic at post time.

Three customers in the area are without power, according to the Unitil outage map.

NEWS 603 posted a video from the crash scene on Facebook.

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