SCHOOL BUS CRASH REPORTS 2007

School Bus Rolls on I-25, Six Injured
February 26, 2007

A school bus carrying 30 high school students and chaperones from Fort Collins rolled over on Interstate-25 early this morning, injuring six students, according to the state patrol.

The injured were taken to the Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland, where five were treated and released. The sixth student, identified by the state patrol as senior Leslie Cross, 18, of Fort Collins, went into surgery for treatment of injuries that were not considered life threatening. She is recovering in intensive care, according to the hospital.

The accident occurred as two school buses were returning to Fort Collins from Denver with at least 52 Poudre High School students, chaperones and parents. The students are members of the school's Impala Phonics Chorale group, which had performed at the Boettcher Concert Hall in Denver Sunday night.

At approximately 12:45 a.m., one of the northbound buses went off the left side of the highway into the median just north of Windsor near Colo. Hwy 392, said Trooper Gilbert Mares.

The driver, David M. Hurt, 55, of Fort Collins, corrected the bus back onto the asphalt roadway but then went back off the left side into the median. As Hurt corrected a second time, the bus rolled over onto its left side in the left lane of the Interstate, Mares said.

The cause of the accident has not been determined but driver error is being investigated. The accident closed the northbound lanes for more than two hours. Weather and road conditions were not considered factors in the accident.

The passengers who weren't injured were placed in the second bus and returned to the school.

By Mike McPhee
Denver Post Staff Writer

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