Girl, 8, dies when car she was in crashes into Florida school bus Bus was carrying 30 Citrus High School students Associated Press Tags: HERNANDO, Fla. – An 8-year-old girl died when the car she was riding in crashed into the back of a school bus in north Florida. The bus was carrying 30 Citrus High School students when the crash happened Thursday afternoon in Hernando, the Florida Highway Patrol said. The bus had stopped and activated its lights to let students get off the bus when a 75-year-old man failed to stop and crashed into it, troopers said in a crash report. The child was not wearing a seat belt and later died from injuries suffered in the crash, troopers said.