The Kansas Highway Patrol said the wreck occurred just before 1 p.m. near Kansas Highway 32. The school bus is seen laying on its side in the grass just off the roadway. 
 
 When Chopper 5 arrived on scene students appeared to already be off the bus and were seen sitting in the grass nearby. 
 
 Authorities said a school bus carrying sixth-grade girls from Pembroke Hill overturned on southbound Kansas Highway 7 and multiple students and the driver were injured. 
 
 Authorities said a school bus carrying sixth-grade girls from Pembroke Hill overturned on southbound Kansas Highway 7 and multiple students and the driver were injured. 
 
 The Kansas Highway Patrol said the wreck occurred just before 1 p.m. near Kansas Highway 32. 
 
 
 
 Highway patrol said 36 sixth-graders from Pembroke Hill and a driver were on board when the driver took a turn on the ramp too quickly. Trooper Howard Dickinson said it was a single bus wreck, and the bus slid off of Highway 7 and rolled down an embankment. 
 
 The driver, Elmer Scott Jr., 66, of Kansas City, applied the brakes and tried unsuccessfully get back onto the road, according to a Kansas City Highway Patrol. 
 
 Once the vehicle overturned, motorists and others rushed to the bus. 
 
 A massive effort consisting of officials from Lenexa police, KHP, Bonner Springs police, all neighboring agencies and EMS technicians quickly responded to the scene. 
 
 "The back wheels got close to the edge and slid, and they rolled and it turned. It had to be God with them on that bus," witness Marvin Cawthon said. "I couldn't believe it. And then I saw the kids, and I saw everyone beating on the doors as they were trying to get out." 
 
 Good Samaritans and first responders converged on the bus and started getting the girls out. 
 
 "They got the back door open and they were able to pull them out, one by one. They were real quick with them, getting them out of there," Cawthon said. 
 
 A 40-year-old woman was on board chaperoning the students, and she was not injured. Altogether, 22 girls ages 11 and 12 years old were injured, according to the KHP report. 
 
 
 
 People who work in the area said it's not uncommon for vehicles to take the curve too quickly, but highway patrol said it's still too early to say what caused the crash. 
 
 "A lot times maybe when the weather is slick or rainy. I don't know if people take that corner too quick, but it is not unusual to see a car slide off of that ramp," Vivica Ballew said. 
 
 
 
 Durham School Services, who operate the bus, said they are working with highway patrol to determine the cause. 
 
 "Our thoughts and prayers are with all of those affected by this accident including our driver. Safety is Durham's top priority and we are taking every step necessary to ensure that this accident is investigated and responded to appropriately." 
 
 Scott was trapped and had to be extricated. He and the students were taken to either Providence Medical Center, Overland Park Regional Medical Center, University of Kansas Hospital and Children's Mercy Hospital with minor injuries. 
 
 Scott is in serious but stable condition at Overland Park Regional. Highway patrol indicates that the bus driver was not wearing a safety restraint. 
 
 
 
 The southbound ramp was closed until 3:45 p.m. 
 
 Bonner Springs police said a bus carrying sixth-grade boys was following the first bus, but it wasn't involved in the wreck in any way. 
 
 An administrator who works in the school's admissions office said the sixth-graders were heading to a camp out at Tall Oaks in Linwood, KS. The area is a camp, retreat center and conference center. 
 
 Students who weren't injured were taken to Bonner Springs High School, located at 100 N. McDaniel St., to meet their parents. The field trip was canceled after the crash. 
 
 
 
 In order to pick up their child, parents had to present identification to state troopers so they could match it up with the respective children, who were waiting in the school's cafeteria. 
 
 Parents said even though these students weren't injured, it was just as nerve-wracking. One father said he had a difficult time driving past the accident scene, seeing the bus on its side and then trying to get to the high school to see his son. 
 
 School for students at Bonner Springs High was going on as normal when the Pembroke Hill students were brought in. Staff did everything they could to make the sixth-graders as comfortable as possible. 
 
 "They were really amazing from talking to everybody, they brought out drinks for the kids, they took good care of them, they got them all calmed down, they did a wonderful job of handling the kids. These were all sixth-graders, an entire bus load of girls. They were very, very upset and we did the best job. In fact we spent a lot of time at the scene just trying to calm them down," Dickinson said. 
 
 KCTV5's Greg Milota, Amy Anderson, DeAnn Smith, Dave Jordan and Chris Oberholtz contributed to this report. 
 
 
 
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 This image from video provided by KMBC-TV shows the scene of a school bus crash Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013, in Bonner Springs, Kan. A spokeswoman for a private Kansas City, Mo., school says eight sixth-grade... (Associated Press) 
 
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 This image from video provided by KMBC-TV shows the scene of a school bus crash Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013, in Bonner Springs, Kan. A spokeswoman for a private Kansas City, Mo., school says eight sixth-grade... (Associated Press) 
 
 The bus overturned Wednesday afternoon in Bonner Springs while carrying students from Pembroke Hill School, a private school in nearby Kansas City, Mo. 
 
 School spokeswoman Beth Bryant says eight sixth-grade girls were hurt but that no one suffered life-threatening injuries. 
 
 Bryant says the bus was carrying 30 sixth-grade girls to a campout when it crashed along a ramp connecting Kansas 7 and Kansas 32. She says the other 22 girls were being taken to a local high school to be picked up by their parents. 
 
 Television images showed the bus on its side, with paramedics placing children on stretchers. 
 
 Bonner Springs is about 18 miles west of Kansas City, Mo. ||||| This April 22, 2014 provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections shows Roderick Nunley who is scheduled to die for raping and killing 15-year-old Ann Harrison in Kansas City in 1989. (Missouri Department of Corrections via AP) 
 
 A man who spent nearly 25 years on Missouri's death row has been executed for the kidnapping, rape and stabbing death of a 15-year-old Kansas City girl. 
 
 Roderick Nunley, 50, died by injection Tuesday night. During the execution, his breathing became labored for a few seconds. He briefly opened his mouth before becoming still. 
 
 He was pronounced dead at 9:09 p.m. CDT. 
 
 Of 20 executions nationally in 2015, 10 have been in Texas and Nunley's makes the sixth death row inmate to be put to death in Missouri. 
 
 Bob and Janel Harrison, the parents of the young victim, released a statement afterwards, saying: 
 
 "For the last 26 years Janel and I have, on occasion, experienced a form of compassion for not only Roderick Nunley and Michael Taylor but especially their families. No one involved deserved the pain, suffering or anguish these two cowards have bestowed on this community. This feeling diminishes rapidly as our thoughts are uncontrollably diverted to the vision of Ann being dragged into the stolen car by her hair and stomped to the floor board in an attempt to hide her from sight as they transported her to Nunley’s home. Upon arrival at the home, she was made to crawl through the garage to an area where the true torture began, not only physical, but mental. They recounted in their confessions that while she was blindfolded they laughed as she pleaded for her life and how they stood over her and discussed that they had to kill her so she could not identify them. Ann was then lifted into the trunk of the stolen car as Nunley went to the kitchen to obtain the murder weapons. After attempting to slit her throat, only to find the kitchen knives were too dull, they elected to stab her repeatedly in the chest and back and shut the trunk lid, only to hear her sobbing and moaning in her final moments of life. Will the execution of Roderick Nunley and Michael Taylor bring a sense of closure for us and our younger daughters? We don’t know. Will it put the heartbreak of reliving what they did to Ann during all the hearings, appeals and seemingly endless stalling attempts? We certainly hope so. If this is the only form of closure we receive, then we will gladly take it. We want to express our deepest appreciation for all the support we have continuously received from our family, extended family, friends, Ann’s classmates, The Raytown Girls Softball League, The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Governor Nixon, The Attorney General’s office, the Department of Corrections and especially to the officers and detectives of the KCPD who worked tirelessly to bring Ann’s killers to justice. Finally, we wish to thank the many members of the media and press many of which have been at our side from the very morning Ann was taken. You have accepted the times when we were completely drained and just unable to speak to anyone. You allowed us the privacy we needed to work through the 26 years of grieving. Thank you all." 
 
 "Despite openly admitting his guilt to the court, it has taken 25 years to get him to the execution chamber," Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster said in a statement. "Nunley's case offers a textbook example showing why society is so frustrated with a system that has become too cumbersome." 
 
 Investigators say he and his co-defendant randomly targeted and kidnapped Ann Harrison, 15, as she waited outside her Kansas City home for the school bus in 1989. The girl was then raped and fatally stabbed. 
 
 The U.S. Supreme Court had said it wouldn't stop the scheduled execution and Gov. Jay Nixon denied his clemency petition. Both Nunley and his co-defendant in the case, Michael Taylor, were sentenced to death in 1991. Taylor was executed last year. 
 
 Nunley's attorney has three appeals before the U.S. Supreme Court, including one that says the death penalty amounts to cruel and unusual punishment — an argument rebuffed by a detective with a 42-year career who helped break the case. 
 
 Retired Kansas City detective Pete Edlund said the only thing cruel and unusual is how long Nunley and Taylor remained on death row. 
 
 “A travesty,” he said. “I’m frustrated by the fact it’s taken so long and over ridiculous excuses to extend their time on death row.” 
 
 He said Nunley should have been put to death long ago. 
 
 "They just take forever to do the deed," Edlund told The Associated Press. "The delay in executing these two is just nuts because it didn't have anything to do with their guilt. It was legal mumbo jumbo nonsense." 
 
 To this day neighbor Deborah Bowen carries a picture of Ann and her sisters in her car. It’s there to remind her of the innocent girl down the street from her. 
 
 “I will never forget the girl, she was just a beautiful thing,” Bowen said. “My dad went to his grave knowing those two were still alive.” 
 
 The former detective is hoping, with Nunley’s execution, it will offer some sort of peace for Ann’s family. 
 
 “It has been a long time, justice delayed,” Edlund said. 
 
 The other two pending appeals take issue with Missouri's process of secretly acquiring its execution drug and argue that Nunley should have been sentenced by a jury, not a judge. 
 
 The clemency petition to Nixon, filed by death penalty opponents, alleges that racial bias played a role in the case because a prosecutor refused a plea deal that would have given Nunley life in prison without parole. Nunley is black, as was Taylor, while the victim was white. 
 
 According to prosecutors, Nunley and Taylor binged on cocaine and stole a car in the pre-dawn hours of March 22, 1989. At one point, a police officer from neighboring Lee's Summit chased the car but was called off by a supervisor when the stolen car crossed into Kansas City. 
 
 Later that morning, the men were driving around Kansas City when they saw Ann standing at the end of her driveway, waiting for a school bus. The girl's mother had stepped inside to get a younger daughter ready for school. When she heard the bus, she looked outside. The books and flute were still there, but Ann was gone. 
 
 Taylor and Nunley had quickly grabbed the 15-year-old girl and took her to Nunley's mother's home. She was raped and sodomized, then stabbed repeatedly in the stomach and neck. 
 
 Taylor and Nunley put the girl's body in the trunk of the stolen car, then abandoned it in a residential area. The body was found three days later. 
 
 Edlund said the case was cracked months later when a man in jail for robbery — and seeking a $10,000 reward in the case — turned in Taylor and Nunley. Both men confessed, and some of Ann's hair was found in carpeting at the home where the crime occurred. 
 
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– A school bus carrying about 30 sixth-grade girls overturned in Kansas today when its driver took an on-ramp too quickly, police in Bonner Springs tell KCTV. Eight girls were hurt in the crash, but none of the injuries was life-threatening, a spokesperson for Pembroke Hill School in Kansas City, Missouri, tells AP. According to an administrator, the girls were en route to a camping trip.