Students struck by vehicles while heading to school in South Carolina, Kentucky

Two students were struck by vehicles Tuesday morning while heading to school in separate incidents. In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, a middle school student was hit while waiting for a bus near Upper Valley Falls Road and Gobblers Knob; the student was hospitalized and is expected to recover, and the driver and bus driver remained at the scene until help arrived. In Lexington, Kentucky, a Fayette County Public Schools student was hit by a car on Briar Hill Road while on the way to a bus stop and taken to a hospital with reported life-threatening injuries. Police are investigating the Lexington collision, and the road was closed during the investigation.