A man died Monday afternoon following a chain-reaction crash on East Tudor Road near Lake Otis Parkway that started when a school bus rear-ended a pickup, Anchorage police say.
No students were seriously injured, authorities said. All the vehicles involved were in the same lane of traffic, one in front of the other.
The multivehicle crash was reported just before 4:45 p.m., the Anchorage Police Department said in a release. The Anchorage School District bus was eastbound on Tudor just before Laurel Street when it struck a green Chevrolet Silverado pickup, police said. The impact pushed the green Silverado into a red Silverado, they said, and the red pickup then struck a Nissan SUV in front of it.
The driver of the green Silverado was declared dead at a hospital a short time after the crash, police said. The other three drivers remained at the scene and are cooperating with police, they said.
One child on the school bus at the time did not require medical attention and was picked up at the scene by a parent, police said.
The bus driver had just finished dropping off students from Romig Middle School and was headed back to the bus barn when the crash occurred, according to a district statement. The student and bus driver were not seriously injured, the statement said.
Police are investigating the cause of the crash and said no charges had been filed as of Tuesday morning. A police spokeswoman said there were “no additional details currently available for public release.”
District officials said they are cooperating with police in the investigation. A spokesman did not answer additional questions on Tuesday.