WARSAW, IN - A crash involving a semi-truck and a school bus in Kosciusko County sent multiple students to the hospital over the weekend.

Saturday night, just after 8 PM, the Kosciusko Central Dispatch had advised that a semi-truck with New Jersey plates was driving at an excessive speed, swerving into other lanes and driving off the roadway near the Warsaw city limits on U.S. 30.

Eyewitnesses say the westbound semi blew through a red light and struck the bus as it turned left onto U.S. 30.

According to a press release, the Illinois bus was transporting 23 students and two adult coaches of the Saint Ignatius College Prep’s hockey team to a local hotel after a game at Culver Academy when the collision occurred. Two critically injured students were taken to Fort Wayne Lutheran Hospital, and one was transported to Lutheran Kosciusko County.

Three of the 23 students remain at area hospitals, but doctors say they are all in stable condition.

Sixteen students were injured in the crash and taken to the hospital.

Most of the student’s parents were reportedly in the area for the hockey tournament and arrived on the scene shortly after it happened.

The remainder of the students returned home to Chicago.

The crash remains under investigation, but after smelling alcohol on the truck driver’s breath, Warsaw police initiated a DUI investigation. The truck driver, 58-year-old Victor Santos of Brooklyn, New York, failed the field sobriety test. When he refused to take a chemical test, Warsaw Police obtained a search warrant.

Pending formal charges, the Kosciusko County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office placed a 48-hour hold on the truck driver with preliminary charges of Operating While Intoxicated, Causing Serious Bodily Injury, a level 5 felony.