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YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK -- Twelve children and an adult were injured Thursday in a bus crash during a sixth-grade day trip from a Valley school to Yosemite National Park.

All the injuries were minor, said Vickie Mates, a park spokeswoman.

Two buses were carrying 100 people on Highway 120 inside park boundaries when one bus rear-ended another that had slowed for traffic ahead, said Gary Wuchner, a field information officer with Yosemite National Park.

The students attend Yolo Middle School in the Stanislaus County city of Newman, on Highway 33 north of Los Banos.

There were 51 students, parents and teachers on one bus and 49 on the other bus. The buses carried 76 students total.

The 13 people injured were taken to the Yosemite clinic in the park, Mercy Community Medical Center in Merced, John C. Fremont Hospital in Mariposa and Doctors Medical Center in Modesto.

The accident occurred about a mile west of where highways 120 and 140 meet, which is about seven miles west of Yosemite Village, Wuchner said.

A construction zone is in place where the highways meet, and there has been additional traffic there, but park officials don't believe traffic was backed up to the site where the accident occurred.

But it is a "windy, narrow roadway," said Adrienne Freeman, a park ranger.

She said park officials have practiced for these kinds of incidents and were pleased with the emergency response.

The most seriously injured child was a girl with a bump on her chin, said Rick Fauss, superintendent of the 2,700-student Newman-Crows Landing Unified School District that includes Yolo Middle School.

"They were going to hike in the Valley," Fauss said.

It's a day trip the school has not made in the past, he added.

Yolo Middle School has 196 students in sixth grade, Fauss said.

Parents were notified about the accident through an automated system that sent phone calls or e-mails to parents a few minutes after district officials learned about the crash, he said.

The only parent personally notified was that of the child who bumped her chin, Fauss said.

Newman, a city of 10,000, boasts on its city Web site that it is known for having California's first school bus, a converted 1916 Ford Model T.