Adam Rodewald

USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin

BONDUEL - Six people, including children, were hospitalized when two sport utility vehicles carrying Boy Scouts crashed into each other Saturday on Wisconsin 29 in Shawano County.

The troop leader, who was driving one of the vehicles, was taken by helicopter to HSHS St. Vincent Hospital in Green Bay due to a severe head injury, Bonduel Police Chief Todd Chaney said.

The Boy Scouts were from Racine and going eastbound on Wisconsin 29 in two separate vehicles. The troop leader was driving the first vehicle and also pulling a trailer. Around 9:55 a.m., he swerved off the road, over-corrected and lost control of the SUV and trailer.

The second vehicle smashed into the first and both rolled off the road. The trailer overturned, and the second SUV landed on the front of the first SUV in a deep ditch along the highway just west of Wisconsin 47.

None of the 12 passengers were ejected from the vehicles, but six were taken to nearby hospitals. Chaney said he doesn't think the injuries are life threatening.

The uninjured passengers waited at a nearby gas station and convenience store until another adult could drive them home.