GREENBELT (AP/ABC7) - Authorities say 13 tour bus passengers, including several middle school students, suffered minor injuries after multiple crashes involving two tour buses and several other vehicles on the Capital Beltway.

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Prince George's County Fire spokesman Mark Brady says the crashes happened just before 10 a.m. on the Inner Loop between Kenilworth Avenue and the Baltimore-Washington Parkway. In one incident, a box truck rear ended one of the buses. The other one involved two more buses near the Kenilworth Avenue exit.

Brady says that the buses were part of a caravan from a middle school in Dallastown, Pa., a small town south of York, Pa., and that the students and their chaperones were on their way to a day of sightseeing in the District.

A total of 12 students one one adult complained of neck and back pain as a result of the crashes. In total, more than 80 students and chaperones were evaluated on the scene.

The crashes remain under investigation.

ABC7's Suzanne Kennedy contributed to this report.