LACROSSE, Wis. — A school bus, with only the driver aboard, plowed into five vehicles on Interstate 90 just inside the Wisconsin state line. In all five persons were injured. First-responders extricated two people from one crushed car. They were taken to a hospital. Tentatively their injuries were deemed non-serious. The accident was about 7:55 a.m. State troopers quoted the bus driver as not seeing commuters backed up where eastbound I-90 narrows to one lane for construction. Clearing wreckage was expected to take five or six hours.
I-90 back-up east of Mississippi bridge. Crash during peak morning commute to LaCrosse from Minnesota Image: Wisconsin Highway Department
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Hoisting, clearing wreckage. The bus was operated by LaCrescent-based Ready Bus Lines. The company’s fleet includes motorcoaches and school buses. Larger school buses have 83 seats. Imaged: Brent Welch