MARCH 5, 2015
ORONDO, WASHINGTON
The driver of a car is dead after a crash that also involved
a school bus and a truck near Orondo, Washington, on Thursday.
Forty-three students on the bus were taken to the hospital
with injuries, and the bus driver suffered minor injuries, according to
Washington State Patrol. The extent of
their injuries in unknown at this time according to Trooper Wright.
Initial
reports were that 5 students and the driver were injured in the crash, but
Trooper Wright later raised the total number of students taken to the hospital
to 43.
Two people in the truck were seriously injured.
No identities have been released.
State Route 97 is closed from Orondo to milepost 235 due to
accident. SR 97 runs along the east side of the Columbia River.
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