School bus, pick-up truck collide - Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman
According to troopers First Student school bus driven by Robert Ferguson, 56, of Wasilla, and carrying about 40 students failed to yield to a 2015 Chevy Silverado driven east on Bogard Road by Patrick Stillman, 31, of Anchorage. The bus also struck an Alaska Department of Transportation light duty truck stopped at the intersection, according to troopers. As Stillman approached the intersection of Trunk and Bogard, he said the school bus tried to turn left onto Stringfield Road, and the two vehicles collided. Students were spotted leaving the scene in another school bus shortly after a Frontiersman reporter arrived. However, shortly after the crash, word began to spread on social media of students who missed school as a result of apparent minor injuries. Kelly Parker said First Student hadn’t notified her that her 14-year-old daughter, Camryn Evans, was involved in the crash. When she arrived at the scene, a traffic flagger waved her through without answering questions, Parker said. She discovered the students had been transported home via another bus only when her daughter called her on a cell phone to report that she was walking home from the bus stop. “The only kids that got checked out by the paramedics were kids that were crying,” Parker said. Camryn missed school Wednesday, and could possibly return to the emergency room, Parker said. Source: www.frontiersman.com
