(WCJB/Gray News) - A police officer in Florida has been sent to the hospital after crashing his patrol car into a Marion County school bus Friday morning.

According to the Florida Highway Patrol, troopers responded to a reported crash on Southwest 49th Avenue involving a Gainesville police officer in a marked patrol car that collided with the school bus.

Troopers investigating the crash say the bus was stopped in the southbound lane with lights flashing and the stop sign extended as it prepared to pick up children at a bus stop.