A school bus turned over Monday morning in Cherokee County after it hit a utility pole wounding 25 students.

Around 8 a.m. the bus, which was heading to Sequoyah High School and Dean Rusk Middle School on Hickory Flat Highway in the southern part of the county, 40 miles north of Atlanta, lost control after entering a slight curve.

According to Cherokee sheriff's Sgt. Jay Baker, one student was airlifted to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite while the other 23 were taken to hospitals by ambulance. One student was treated at the scene of the accident.

Some of the children had neck and back injuries.

Baker said: "The worst injury is being called moderate, because that child lost consciousness," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

The student regained consciousness after arriving to Scottish Rite.

He added: "We've got a lot of scrapes and bruises and bumps, but it doesn't appear that anything's too severe."

Sixteen of the students were taken to Northside Hospital-Cherokee and seven to North Fulton Regional Hospital.

The accident occurred about two miles from the schools, which are next to each other. The bus was positioned some yards off the roadway on its left side. The front appeared to be damaged.

At 8:45 Hickory Flat Highway was closed in both directions between Park Creek Drive and Poole Drive.

Lisa Childers, who works at Family Tradition restaurant nearby the site of the accident, said she heard a loud noise and traffic stopped.

She said that “everybody started arriving and they blocked traffic in both directions.”

According to some patrons, the bus hit a utility pole.

The highway is busy, with commuters traveling in the new exurban subdivisions.