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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) - Seven people, including five students, are recovering after a plow truck hit the back of a Rapid transit bus while it loaded and unloaded passengers near Creston High School on Tuesday morning. Dozens of police officers, firefighters and EMS personnel converged at Plainfield Avenue near Palmer just before 9 a.m., carefully removing passengers after the sudden jolt. "I was just trying to get to school and ... this thing just ran into us!" Creston student Darian Goodman said. He got off the bus uninjured. But five other students weren't as fortunate, after the pick-up truck with a plow on its front slammed into the back of Rapids Bus No. 289. The plow truck was heading northbound on Plainfield when it hit the 40-foot-long bus. The impact forced the bus over about 20 feet. A passenger boarding the bus and the driver of the plow truck were the most seriously injured. Both were taken to Spectrum Butterworth with what police describe as nonlife-threatening injuries. Five Creston students also were taken in to be checked out. "Complaints of either back pain, elbow, arm, knee -- something like that, (they) were transported just as a precaution," said Sgt. Jim Potter, of the Grand Rapids Fire Department. It's not clear if weather played a role in the crash. It was misting and visibility was limited when it happened. "It doesn't look like he even broke before he it the bus," Potter said. "But that's hard to tell, because of the wet pavement. He hit 'em pretty hard." Police aren't releasing the name of the plow driver. The truck, according to Secretary of State records, is registered to a northeast Grand Rapids snow plow and landscaping company.

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