OSCEOLA, Iowa (AP) – Seven children and one adult were taken to two hospitals after their school bus toppled off a slick gravel road outside Osceola Wednesday afternoon. The Iowa State Patrol says the 2014 Thomas bus driven by 72-year old Darwin Griffith, of Osceola, was traveling north on 210^th Avenue, just north of Truro, when the bus went out of control and slid into the east ditch, where it struck a bridge railing and overturned, coming to rest in a creek. The accident happened just before 3-p.m., Wednesday.

Griffith and all seven children suffered minor injuries and were transported to the Clarke County Hospital in Osceola and Blank Children’s Hospital in Des Moines, as a precaution. Clarke County Sheriff’s Deputy Brian Akers says the area had received a heavy downpour that turned the road “all to soup,” shortly before the crash.