{"id":25086,"date":"2025-03-07T01:14:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T06:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=25086"},"modified":"2025-03-07T02:22:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T07:22:25","slug":"pickup-truck-rear-ends-school-bus-in-brick-causing-minor-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2025\/03\/pickup-truck-rear-ends-school-bus-in-brick-causing-minor-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"Pickup Truck Rear-Ends School Bus in Brick, Causing Minor Injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25087\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/482007962_10170605515825007_9022286935339433002_n.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25087\" class=\"wp-image-25087 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/482007962_10170605515825007_9022286935339433002_n-e1741332082475-1024x980.jpg\" alt=\"An accident involving a Brick Township school bus, March 6, 2025. (Reader-Submitted Photo)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"957\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/482007962_10170605515825007_9022286935339433002_n-e1741332082475-1024x980.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/482007962_10170605515825007_9022286935339433002_n-e1741332082475-400x383.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/482007962_10170605515825007_9022286935339433002_n-e1741332082475-768x735.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/482007962_10170605515825007_9022286935339433002_n-e1741332082475.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25087\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An accident involving a Brick Township school bus, March 6, 2025. (Reader-Submitted Photo)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brick police said a pickup truck was following too closely behind a school bus when it rear-ended the bus on Cherry Quay Road Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The accident occurred at 8:21 a.m., police said in a statement, and involved a Brick Township public school bus. Police said &#8220;minor injuries&#8221; were reported as a result of the accident. Brick police officers, EMTs, as well as school officials went to the scene to ensure children were safely either picked up by parents or transported the rest of the way to school.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This event serves as a critical reminder for all drivers to adhere to posted speed limits and exercise utmost caution during school hours, when buses frequently stop to pick up or drop off students,&#8221; police said in a statement. &#8220;The Brick Township Police Department urges residents to prioritize safety on our roads.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the pickup truck was not identified by police. The investigation into the accident remains ongoing, police said, and anyone with further inquiries are asked to contact the department at 732-262-1100.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2025\/03\/pickup-truck-rear-ends-school-bus-in-brick-causing-minor-injuries\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brick police said a pickup truck was following too closely behind a school bus when it rear-ended the bus on Cherry Quay Road Thursday morning. The accident occurred at 8:21 a.m., police said in a statement, and involved a Brick Township public school bus. Police said &#8220;minor injuries&#8221; were reported as a result of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[24,341,4484,5411],"class_list":["post-25086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-cherry-quay-road","tag-featured","tag-school-bus-accident"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/482007962_10170605515825007_9022286935339433002_n-e1741332082475.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-6wC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}