The bus was returning to Memphis, Tennessee from a championship game in Dallas, Texas when it crashed west of Benton, Arkansas, the state police said.

"One child is dead and at least 40 other individuals, most of them children, are reported to be injured," the Arkansas state police said in a Facebook post. "The injured have been transported to area hospitals in Little Rock and Benton."

"The bus driver is alive and is being questioned by state troopers," it said.