Four elementary school students were hospitalized Monday afternoon after their school bus crashed into a North Philadelphia home.
The Durham School Services bus hit a brick house near the corner of N 9th and W Cambria Streets (across from Fairhill Cemetery) around 4 p.m., according to the Philadelphia Fire Department.
All four kids -- ages 9 to 13 -- were rushed to St. Christopher’s Hospital for observations, according to firefighters.
The kids were listed in stable condition and were expected to be released sometime later Monday night.
The School District of Philadelphia said that two of the students attend Henry Charles School and the other two attend Henry Houston School. Both schools are in West Mount Airy -- more than five miles from the crash site.
The bus came to a stop with much of the front end of the bus in the brick building.
An eyewitness witness told NBC10 that he pried the back emergency exit open to help kids off the bus.
The witness said that the driver wasn't helping him take the kids off the bus.
Witnesses told NBC10 that the driver was talking on his cell phone for at least a block before the crash.
The driver was not injured. Police questioned the driver on the scene.
No word was immediately given on a possible cause of the crash.
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