Woman suffers minor injuries, charged after truck strikes school bus
Today (August 14, 2019) at approximately 3:46 PM, the Pulaski Police Department responded to a motor vehicle crash on E. Main Street at Dora Highway. An occupied school bus was traveling east on East Main Street, when a maroon 1998 Chevrolet pick up truck turned west onto E. Main Street, and struck the bus.
Upon arrival, Corporal C.J. Dickerson determined there were no injuries to anyone on the school bus.
The driver and occupant of the Chevrolet, however, were both transported to LewisGale Hospital-Pulaski with non-life threatening injuries.
Patricia Hurst Odell, 76, of Draper, was charged with failure to yield right of way.
By authority: Officer M. Jennings
August 14, 2019 @ 6:40 pm
Time to take the drivers license away….
August 15, 2019 @ 7:04 pm
Excuse me but I was on that bus and in no way was it our bus drivers fault! I have had a headache since the accident and all through out the day and still at the moment I still have one! So no he should not get his licence taken! He might be strict but that’s what kept all of us safe! If he had not gotten on us so much about sitting the right way in our seats and not moving seats while the bus is moving, one or most of the students could have gotten seriously hurt! So if our bus driver see’s this I just want to say how grateful me and my family are that he was strict and made us sit right in our seats! I do feel sorry for the people in that car and I send prayers!
August 17, 2019 @ 10:25 am
I meant the old woman driving the pickup truck. Sorry for the confusion!