VIDEO: Several students and a bus driver were taken to the hospital when two charter buses headed to Carowinds for a class trip collided Friday morning. It happened around 9:40 a.m. on the ramp from Interstate 85 North to Ozark Avenue, Gaston County Emergency Services said. According to a spokesperson for the school district, five students who reported soreness and a bus driver all went to the hospital to be checked out by EMS. Gastonia police confirmed to Channel 9 that about 85 middle school students and 21 chaperones were on the two buses and were headed to Carowinds for a class trip. Channel 9 has learned Carowinds was hosting its Festival of Music on Friday, and a parent said the students are all in the sixth grade band.