EXCELSIOR, Wis.— A 13-year-old girl, Evelyn Gurney, was struck by an out-of-control pickup truck as she was about to board a bus to go to school nine miles away in Reedsburg. Sheriff Chip Meister said the bus was stopped when a Ford F-150, headed the same direction, swerved to avoid the bus, which was stopped. The truck, said the sheriff, sideswiped the bus and continued along a driveway and struck the Gurney girl. The truck came to a stop in a ditch. No students on the bus were injured. The name of the pickup driver, who sustained minor injuries, was not released by Sheriff Meister.
Gurney. A student at Webb Middle School in Reedsburg. In her pale blue hockey jersey.