One man is at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle with unknown injuries after the car he was driving rear-ended a Columbus Municipal School District school bus Monday morning.
The bus was in the southbound lane of Highway 69 near the intersection of Chandler Road and had stopped for its second pick-up of he day, when the dark-colored Toyota Solara plowed into the back of the bus, crumbling the windshield and car roof almost to the rear wheels. The accident occurred at 7:21 a.m.
A CMSD resource officer at the scene say CMSD bus No. 20 was driven by Keisha Davis and there was only one student on the bus at the time of the collision. Neither Davis nor the student were injured, the resource officer said.
The driver of the car was identified only as a 27-year-old male.
“We believe he may have been getting off work at the steel mill and may have fallen asleep,” Columbus Police Department Public Information Officer Joe Dillon said. “He was able to crawl out of the back of the car and was taken to the hospital by ambulance.”
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