SCHOOL BUS CRASH REPORTS 2007

School Bus-Car Accident Injures 3
March 2, 2007

Two children and an adult were injured in an accident involving a school bus and a passenger vehicle about 8 a.m. today in the 200 block of Mary Ingles Highway in Fort Thomas.

Rescue workers said they were giving cardiopulmonary resuscitation to a child who had suffered a serious injury. All three occupants of the passenger vehicle, two children and an adult driver were taken to hospitals, said Fort Thomas Police Chief Mike Daly.

At least one of the children in the car was in serious condition, said Fort Thomas Police Lt. Richard Whitford. At least one victim was taken to Children's Hospital in Cincinnati.

The injured were not identified this morning.

Daly said the car and bus were traveling west on Ky. 8 (Mary Ingles Highway) when the car attempted to pass two buses and struck the front end of the lead bus, lost control, hit a utility pole and went over an embankment on the north side of the road, which winds alongside the Ohio River through Fort Thomas. The car did not go into the river below the embankment.

The bus struck was a Campbell County school bus en route to Campbell Ridge Elementary in Alexandria with one child on board, said Todd Colvin, transportation director for Campbell County Schools. The child on the bus was not hurt, Colvin said.

Yvonne Steffen was the bus driver and a bus monitor was also on board, he said.

Rick Frommeyer was the driver of the second bus, which was from Dayton schools. "That lady was flying,'' he said. He estimated she was going 60 mph.

Frommeyer said he stopped his bus, ran down the hill and pulled one of the children, who he said appeared to be 6 or 7, out of the car. The child seemed to be uninjured, but was crying, he said.

Frommeyer said someone else pulled a younger child out. That child, who looked to be 3 or 4, appeared to be seriously injured, he said.

Frommeyer said he's been driving that route for seven years and that it's a dangerous road.

The accident broke a utility pole and Duke Energy responded to the scene to secure it. Electricity was popping and throwing sparks, Frommeyer said.

Police closed Ky. 8 near River Road and alsoat Tower Hill Road.

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