ALDEN, Minn. – A South Dakota driver died on impact when he slammed into a school bus carrying a Waseca school volleyball team home from matches in Marshall. Although several teenagers on the bus were banged up, none of their injuries were life-threatening. The school bus driver was not hurt seriously. The accident was on Interstate 90 near the Alden exit. The girls were 160 miles from Marshall and within 40 miles of home. They were 14 to16 years old, all members of the Waseca High School junior varsity team or a Junior High School C team. Their chaperone, Kelsey Jo Kahnk, 24, was unhurt. The driver of the car, who died, was Mark Alan Tigner, 55, of Brandon, which is just over the South Dakota border near Sioux Falls. The wreckage of his 2006 Ford Mustang was so mangled that it was impossible to determine immediateky whether alcohol factored into the collision. The accidentwas about 8:45 p.m. Tigner was westbound, heading toward South Dakota. He was alone. Tigner and the school bus were going opposite directors. How they met was not ascertained immediately. Taken 12 miles to the Albert Lea hospital; all with non-life-threatening injuries, were:
> Charles Edward Cone, 79, the bus driver.
> Kalea Jewel Sartori, 16.
> Madison Leigh Corder-Broughten, 15..
> Madelynn Leann Benzick, 14,
> Makya Jo Donovan, 14.
> Avery Elaine Gaul, 14.
> Emily Myrna Mumme, 14.
> Audriamma Lynn Willingham, 14.