WITOKA, Minn. – A Winona school bus starting its morning pick-up rounds and a car collided near the Witoka tavern.  No children were on board. There were no injuries. The incident was the third this school year involving Winona school buses, which are operated under a $3.4 million contract by the Ohio-based First Student school busing contract. Earlier:

> September 11: A bus driver got lost the first day of school and drove around looking for where he was supposed to be. Parents, meanwhile, were also driving around, some in panic, looking for the bus and their children.

> November 29: A bus and a car collided on the Stockton Hill summit, critically injuring driver. No cjildren were injured.