Emergency crews worked on a school bus that flipped over the guard rail on Route 228 in Adams Township on Sept. 24.

ADAMS TWP — Mars School District officials are asking PennDOT to review the section of Route 228 where a school bus accident last week injured multiple students.

On Sept. 24, Bus No. 4 went over an embankment in a construction zone with 40 students aboard. Six students were sent to area hospitals with minor injuries, while 22 were taken to UPMC Passavant for evaluation. The remaining 12 left with their parents.

The driver of the bus has not been identified by the district, which uses A.J. Myers & Sons Inc. as its transportation provider.

In a letter dated Monday and addressed to PennDOT Secretary Leslie Richards, district Solicitor Tom King outlined the background of the incident, indicatingit could have been worse.

The letter asks PennDOT officials to “immediately send appropriate Transportation Department personnel and consult with the Pennsylvania State Police and Adams Township Police to determine whether the route now under construction is appropriate and safe for travel by school buses.

“We send a lot of kids and a lot of buses through that construction zone every day,” King sid Monday, adding, “Just in general, we want to know right away so that some other accident doesn't happen.”

Read the full story in Tuesday's Butler Eagle.