SCHOOL BUS CRASH REPORTS 2007

Car Lands Under Bus After Crash
April 30, 2007

STALLINGS, N.C. -- A car wound up underneath a school bus after an early morning crash Monday.

Union County school bus number 945 was entering the Madison Ridge subdivision just before 7 a.m. when a Chrysler Sebring crashed into the bus ending up underneath it, according to police.

The driver of the Sebring, Corey Lamar Thomas, was driving north on Stallings Road when the bus crossed the roadway in front of him, police said. The car hit the left side of the bus and the car became stuck underneath the underside of the bus with the car's trunk sticking out from the left side of the bus and the front of the car sticking out from the right side of the bus.

There were 18 students on board the bus at the time of the accident. They were quickly evacuated from the bus. Three students had minor injuries and those student's parents picked them up and took them to get medical aid.

Thomas was taken to Carolinas Medical Center by helicopter.

Police are still investigating the cause of the crash.
 

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