SILOAM — A single-vehicle accident involving a Copeland Elementary School bus sent one 9-year-old girl to the hospital complaining of head and neck pain Tuesday afternoon.

The wreck was called in to the 911 communications center at 4:10 p.m. Five students were on board, none were seriously injured, according to officials with Surry County Emergency Services. The student was transported to Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital to be checked out.

Trooper Jimmy Selba of the North Carolina Highway Patrol said the bus driver, Curtis Ponder, 38, was coming down Gene Culler Road, which is a gravel road, when he thought a tire had blown out.

“He ran off the right side of the road and hit a ditch,” Selba said.

The girl who was transported to the hospital had been sitting with two other students in the back of the bus at the time of the accident.

Selba said the wreck damaged one of the bus’ axles, so it was towed back to the Surry County Schools bus garage. He said he would be going back to look at the bus today to see if there was indeed anything mechanically wrong with the vehicle that would have caused the wreck.

No charges have been filed against the driver.