Three children suffered minor injuries in a Thursday night school bus crash in East Dubuque.
Investigators say just after 6:00 Thursday night, the bus driver went through a stop sign on Rt. 64 at Rt. 26 north of Polo, Illinois. The Ogle County Sheriff's Office says the bus then went into a grassy field where it came to a stop.
There were 11 children on board at the time, with three being taken to the hospital for treatment of minor injuries. According to the sheriff’s office, the driver of the bus, 74-year-old Melvin Ehrler of East Dubuque, was cited with disregarding a traffic control device, and failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident.