VALPARAISO, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a pickup driver has died after his pickup collided with a school bus at a rural intersection in eastern Nebraska’s Saunders County.

Sheriff Kevin Stukenholtz (STOO’-kehn-hohltz) says several children on the bus suffered minor injuries. The accident occurred around 7:30 a.m. Thursday about six miles north-northwest of Valparaiso (val-puh-RAY’-zoh).

Stukenholtz says the pickup was headed south on County Road 29 when it collided with the bus, which was going west on County Road H. The intersection had no stop signs.

The sheriff says the pickup driver died at a Lincoln hospital where he’d been flown. Two other people in the pickup also were injured.

The bus was carrying children from East Butler Public Schools. The district superintendent didn’t immediately return a call Thursday from The Associated Press.