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Students not hurt as bus, truck collide
Pickup driver hospitalized
Friday, Dec. 18, 2009
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A pickup truck pulled out in front of a school bus Wednesday morning and was hit, sending five children to the hospital to be checked out while the driver of the truck was flown by helicopter.
The accident occurred just before 7 a.m. on Great Mills Road in Lexington Park.
Torri Lavore Hall, 31, of Lexington Park was driving Bus #20, which is part of the county's fleet of buses that transports children to the county's parochial and other private schools. The bus was traveling eastbound on Great Mills Road when a 1999 Dodge truck driven by William Woodley Dyson, 55, of Lexington Park failed to yield the right of way and pulled from Prather Drive into the path of the school bus causing a collision, according to the sheriff's office.
Dyson was flown by Maryland State Police Trooper 7 helicopter to Prince George's Shock Trauma. A person answering in Dyson's hospital room Thursday declined to comment.
The five Little Flower School students on the bus, ranging in age from 6 to 13, along with Hall were transported by ambulance to St. Mary's Hospital.
"They're all fine. No one was seriously injured" aboard the bus, said the Rev. Joseph Sileo of Holy Face Catholic Church, administrator of Little Flower School. He said all five students were checked out at the hospital but all were back in school by lunchtime.
"The children are all here and doing fine," he said Wednesday afternoon.
This is the second parochial school bus accident in as many weeks. A bus that transports students to St. John's School and St. Mary's Ryken High School was involved in a collision the morning of Dec. 9 on St. Andrew's Church Road .
St. Mary's County government oversees 43 buses run by 18 contractors. The buses service 11 private elementary schools as well as St. Mary's Ryken High School by transporting between 1,600 and 1,900 children.
St. Mary's non-public school contract buses are identified by a two-digit bus number, while public school buses generally have three-digit numbers.
