2 children injured after truck crashes into Minnesota school
A semitrailer is embedded in the side of Lyle Public School Tuesday morning, Jan. 16, 2018 after it veered off a highway and crashed through the wall of the elementary school in Lyle, Minnesota. The semi left Highway 218 in Lyle after trying to avoid a car making a turn, striking it in the right rear of the vehicle. (Eric Johnson/The Daily Herald via AP)
A Minnesota State Patrol trooper surveys the accident scene on Highway 218 Tuesday morning, Jan. 16, 2018 involving a car, foreground, and a semitrailer that left the road and collided with Lyle Public School in Lyle, Minn. (Eric Johnson/The Daily Herald via AP)
A rough track leads to a semi, embedded in the side of Lyle Public School Tuesday morning, Jan. 16, 2018. The semi left Highway 218 in Lyle after trying to avoid a car making a turn, striking it in the right rear of the vehicle. (Eric Johnson/The Daily Herald via AP)
LYLE, Minn. — A semitrailer truck veered off a highway in southern Minnesota and crashed through the wall of an elementary school, injuring two children in a classroom.
School officials in Lyle, next to the Iowa border, say a driver and a child passenger in a vehicle hit by the semi were also injured. The semi driver rear-ended that vehicle on Highway 218 about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, then careened off the highway and crashed into the school with its cab landing inside the walls. The highway is about 100 yards from the school.
All students were evacuated to Our Saviors Lutheran Church across the street. There was no immediate word on the conditions of those injured.
