Nine students from Kids Are Kids Learning Center and their driver were taken to hospitals after a Friday afternoon wreck on North Washington Street.

Gail Renee Albert, 40, 132 Pebble Beach Drive — driving a Chevrolet Ventura — was turning onto Irene Street just before 3:53 p.m. when the van was hit from behind by an 18-wheeler driven by Patrick Edwards, 40, of Greenwood, Vicksburg police patrolman Bobby Jones said. Edwards told police, when he topped a hill on North Washington, Jones said, he didn’t see that the van was stopped and couldn’t slow down.

Albert, registered at River Region under the last name Caples, and four of the children —Damonica South, 6; Ronersha Anderson, 10; Tyronda Mitchell, 8; and Jasmine Thornburg, 11 — were at the hospital Friday night, but their conditions were unknown, spokesman Diane Gawronski said. Shecoby Robinson and Rashad Flaggs, both 7, and Jakayla Roby, 8, were treated and released, Gawronski said, but she had no record of Lydell Hardy, 8.

Alexus Mitchell, 8, was transferred to the University of Mississippi Medical Center, but a spokesman could not be reached Friday night.

The driver of the 18-wheeler was not injured, and no citations were issued.