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December 12, 2007

Haileyville school bus involved in mishap

A Haileyville bus was in a three-vehicle accident this morning, but no school children were injured, according to Principal Roger Hemphill.

“The bus was turning off (U.S. Highway 270) when it got clipped on the right side,” Hemphill said. “When the guy clipped the bus he spun out and then a flatbed truck wiped him out.

“Nobody was hurt bad, thank God. And there wasn’t much damage done to the bus. The right corner edge of the bumper was mashed in, but not a whole lot.”

Hemphill said the accident occurred around 7:25 this morning, “when the bus was turning left right past the Sandburr Arena.”

There were approximately 40 students on the bus. “A couple said they had neck pain and one of them hit his head on the seat, but nobody was hurt bad,” Hemphill said.

The principal said the only damage to the bus was the clipped bumper, and all the students were driven to school on that bus.

“We held breakfast for them,” he said, “to make sure everybody got to have breakfast this morning.”

At presstime, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol was still on the scene investigating the accident and could not release names of the other people involved in the accident.

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