UPDATE: Driver charged after tractor-trailer hits school bus in Newberry

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FILE - Shown is a Philadelphia police car with flashing lights in Philadelphia, Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. The Philadelphia Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police has filed a lawsuit Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022 seeking to stop a city law banning officers from pulling over drivers for low-level offenses from going into effect saying the law illegally pre-empts existing state laws on traffic violations. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

NEWBERRY COUNTY, S.C. (WOLO)– South Carolina Highway Patrol says a tractor-trailer driver has been charged after colliding with a school bus Thursday morning.

Newberry County deputies say the driver hit the school bus on US-76 near Airport Road.

According to investigators, 21 students and two faculty members were taken to the hospital as a precaution.

No serious injuries were reported.

Deputies say the collision was not weather related.

This incident remains under investigation.