FRANKTON, Ind. (AP) — A teenage girl driving to school along an ice-covered rural road collided with a school bus carrying 53 of her schoolmates Wednesday, causing the bus to flip onto its side and injuring two students tossed from their seats, police said.

The crash about 35 miles northeast of Indianapolis was one of several statewide Wednesday involving school buses in a rash of accidents during icy weather blamed for at least five deaths across Indiana since Tuesday evening.

Madison County Sheriff Ron Richardson said the Frankton-Lapel Community Schools bus had the right of way about 9:30 a.m. when 17-year-old Kiesha Lamontagne failed to stop at an intersection and plowed into the right side of the bus carrying her schoolmates. Richardson said investigators had spoken to Lamontagne, who was treated for minor cuts, but he did not know what she had told his deputies.

The bus traveled a short distance before overturning into a field and sending students flying from their seats into piles on the bus's driver's side, he said.

Richardson credited the bus driver, who's also a police officer, with keeping students as calm as possible in the chaos that followed, directing them to climb from the bus through escape hatches on its roof after its back door couldn't be opened.

"He did an excellent job keeping things under control. He took care of getting those children attended to and out of here as quickly as possible and to hospitals," Richardson said.

Frankton-Lapel Community Schools Superintendent Bobby Fields, who raced to the crash site strewn with shattered pieces of Lamontagne's car and a piece of yellow metal from the bus, said he was relieved that no students suffered life-threatening injuries.

"When you're driving up on the scene and you see a bus on its side, that's pretty scary for a school personnel to come up on something like that. I'm very thankful that we didn't have serious injuries," Fields said.

He said that all but two of the students were taken to area hospitals and treated and released, some for minor bruising or scrapes. However, a 16-year-old girl suffered a broken arm when a classmate fell onto her, and a 12-year-old boy had a cut beneath one of his eyes that needed stitches, Fields said.

Shortly after the crash, anxious parents who had heard of the accident arrived at the scene but by that time it was clear there were no serious injuries, he said.

Fields said Lamontagne, like her schoolmates in grades 7-12 on the bus, was headed to Frankton Junior-Senior High School after a 2-hour delay caused by icy conditions.

Middleton resident Mary Hobbs, who visited a friend's home near the crash site shortly after the collision, thought conditions were still hazardous.

"They had no business sending kids to school today. The country roads are horrible," she said.

Slick conditions caused several other crashes involving school buses Wednesday, including a bus that slid on ice in a school parking lot and hit a fence in nearby Anderson. Seven other buses slid off roads in the Evansville area, where schools were on a 2-hour delay.