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Four People Injured in School Bus - Van Accident Save Email Print
WTAP News
Posted: 2:09 PM Jun 20, 2008
Last Updated: 6:22 PM Jun 20, 2008
Reporter: Bruce Layman
Email Address: bruce.layman@wtap.com

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Four people, including a school bus driver and a student, are hospitalized following a school bus - van accident on U.S. Route 50 at the intersection of Ohio Route 329, near the Marathon / Guysville Food Mart in Athens County.

The Ohio Highway Patrol says an unidentified student and the bus driver, 47-year old Pamela Washburn of Coolville, were taken to O'Bleness Memorial Hospital in Athens.

The occupants of the van, 50-year old driver Caren Coleman and 33-year-old passenger Melvin Stone of MacArthur, Ohio, were taken by medical helicopter to St. Mary's Medical Center in Huntington.

Lieutenant David Alkire of the Ohio Highway Patrol says preliminary evidence indicates the bus pulled out from Ohio Route 329 onto U.S. Route 50 in front of the van.

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Posted by: SAVANNAH Location: COOLVILLE OHIO on Sep 4, 2008 at 02:36 PM
IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAPPENED...I KNOW OF SEVERAL PARENTS WHO COMPLAINED ABOUT THIS BUS DRIVER IN THE PAST!!

Posted by: Julie Location: athens on Jun 21, 2008 at 08:48 AM
there were more there at the Hospital then what was said more kids mine was one of them and the news papers around the area was not gettingthe whole story right like u all did............

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