Corrected entry: When everyone runs from the school bus, there are about 20 students running into the field, but when we see them again there are only 4 survivors running from the school bus. It is never explained what happened to the rest of the students.
dewinela
29th Aug 2003
Correction: There is a quick aerial shot of the Creeper flying over the field, where you see a large group of the students running below. There was a smaller group that included Scotty and at least one other person the Creeper picked out that broke off from that group. The larger group was trying to reach a farmhouse they figured was nearby. It already killed some of the people it picked out and most of the remaining ones were in the group it turned its attention to (Bucky was the only one it selected that stayed close to the bus), so it isn't much of a stretch to believe that it may have decided to disregard the larger group and they made it to safety since it was more interested in the smaller group.
dewinela