STOCKTON, Minn. – A 17-year-old driver skidded head-on into a school bus and was critically injured. No children were aboard the school bus, which was just beginning its morning pick-up rounds. The bus driver, age 43, was unhurt but taken to six miles the hospital to be checked out. The driver of the car, however, had life-threatening injuries and was taken to the Winona hospital. The crash was about 6 a.m. just off Highway 14 on the road up Jones Valley next to the Country Valley trailer park. The bus was southbound coming down County Road 20. The car had just turned on to the county road and was heading north. Temperatures were hovering around freezing. and it was surmised that slick surfaces may have been a factor. The State Patrol was summoned to reconstruct what happened.
School bus protocol
As usual with accidents invoving a school bus, multiple agencies responded:
> Winona County sheriff.
> State Patrol.
> Lewiston fire.
> Stockton first-responders.
> Wilson fire.
> Lewiston ambulance.
> Winona ambulance.