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Morning sun blamed for injurious car/bus crash Monday

By Brian Hagen

09/16/2024

Kansas Highway Patrol

(KAIR)--A Monday morning Jefferson County crash between a teenaged driver and a school bus sent three of the 19-children on the bus to the hospital, while the teen driver also required hospital care.

A release from Oskaloosa's USD 341, says the wreck happened as the bus was completing it's morning route, with the three students who were boarding the bus, when the wreck happened, requiring hospital treatment.

A report from the Kansas Highway Patrol says the wreck happened around 7:15 Monday morning, as the bus was stopped on K-92, picking up the students. It was then, the report says, a car, driven by 15-year-old Ozawkie resident, Linn Cote, was driving up a hill and was blinded by the morning sun, which caused him to rear-end the school bus.

Cote, along with the three students, aged 3, 5, and 10, were transported to Topeka's Stormont-Vail for treatment.

According to the KHP, Cote suffered suspected serious injuries in the crash, while the students all suffered possible or minor injuries.

The bus driver, 73-year-old John Norman, of Oskaloosa, was not hurt in the morning wreck.

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