Wild Turkey Injures School Bus Driver
May 22, 2007
EAST HARTFORD, Conn. – A school bus driver suffered cuts Tuesday when a wild turkey crashed through the windshield of her bus on Interstate 84. The bus was carrying 36 fifth graders and four adults on a field trip from Windham when the bus struck the bird at about 9:35 a.m., state police said.
The bus driver, Sheryl Dearborn, 44, was treated for lacerations to her head and face at Manchester Memorial Hospital.
Nobody else on the bus was injured. The passengers were taken home on another bus.
The turkey was pronounced dead at the scene.