Car, School Bus Collide Near Caroline High School

By KIRAN KRISHNAMURTHY

A car collided with a school bus outside Caroline High School yesterday, but police reported no serious injuries.

A Caroline County sheriff’s deputy was directing bus traffic and had signaled to stop oncoming vehicles when a Chevrolet Impala switched lanes and crashed into the front end of a bus, said Virginia State Trooper S.M. Phillips.

One of about 45 students on the bus reported suffering a slight scratch, Phillips said. A passenger in the car was transported to a hospital as a precaution but did not appear to suffer serious injury in the 8:20 a.m. crash, Phillips said.

The car’s driver, Judith Durnbaugh, 61, of Maryland, was charged with failure to obey a police officer’s signal. The bus was turning from Golansville Road onto state Route 207 when it was struck by the westbound car, police said.

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