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(AP) -- Police in College Park say seven students from Banneker High School were injured along with the driver of a school bus wreck on Interstate 85. 

Officials say the single-vehicle accident happened Monday morning on the ramp from I-85 southbound to the Old National Highway exit.

They say the bus wound up on the grass median Paul Marshall, a spokesman for the state Department of Transportation, said there were 16 students on the bus. 

Fulton County Schools spokeswoman Susan Hale says all the injuries are minor.  She says five students were taken to South Fulton Hospital and one to Southern Regional Medical Center. The seventh student was picked up at the scene by a parent and taken to a doctor. 

The 64-year-old driver was taken to Piedmont Hospital.

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