LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A JCPS student was sent to the hospital after the school bus he was on was rear-ended early Wednesday.

It happened around 7 a.m. on Shepherdsville Road at Whispering Hills Boulevard, according to LMPD spokesman Dwight Mitchell. Mitchell said the school bus was stopped at a railroad crossing in that area when a box truck rear-ended the bus, which had 25 students on board. 

Police say one student was taken to Norton Children's Hospital with a leg injury. 

No other injuries were reported.

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