By Star-Bulletin staff
POSTED: 04:30 p.m. HST, Oct 27, 2009
A small school bus carrying nine students, an aide and a driver flipped over this morning in Hilo after a crash, but no one was injured, Big Island police said.
The accident happened at 7:16 a.m. at Kilauea Avenue and Palai Street.
Police said a green Ford sedan driven by a 57-year-old Hilo woman was traveling east on Palai Street and collided with the school bus traveling north on Kilauea Avenue.
The crash sent the bus off the roadway, where it overturned and came to rest in the yard of a home at the intersection.
The 58-year-old driver of the bus, nine students ages 3 to 8 years old, and a female aide, were not injured, police said. However, the children were taken to Hilo Medical Center as a precaution.
Police asking that anyone who witnessed the accident contact officer Nicole Leyson of the South Hilo Patrol Division at the Police Department's nonemergency line at 935-3311.
A small school bus carrying nine students, an aide and a driver flipped over this morning in Hilo after a crash, but no one was injured, Big Island police said.
The accident happened at 7:16 a.m. at Kilauea Avenue and Palai Street.
Police said a green Ford sedan driven by a 57-year-old Hilo woman was traveling east on Palai Street and collided with the school bus traveling north on Kilauea Avenue.
The crash sent the bus off the roadway, where it overturned and came to rest in the yard of a home at the intersection.
The 58-year-old driver of the bus, nine students ages 3 to 8 years old, and a female aide, were not injured, police said. However, the children were taken to Hilo Medical Center as a precaution.
Police asking that anyone who witnessed the accident contact officer Nicole Leyson of the South Hilo Patrol Division at the Police Department's nonemergency line at 935-3311.