A Gilroy student and three others were injured when a school bus
carrying 32 middle school students rear-ended a van on a U.S. 101
on-ramp in south San Jose Tuesday evening, according to the
California Highway Patrol.
A Gilroy student and three others were injured when a school bus carrying 32 middle school students rear-ended a van on a U.S. 101 on-ramp in south San Jose Tuesday evening, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The accident occurred at about 6 p.m. as the Gilroy Unified School District bus was traveling on the Blossom Hill on-ramp to southbound U.S. 101. Randy Russell, 42, of Hollister was driving the South Valley Middle School students home from an athletic event in San Jose.
As the bus approached a metering light, Russell failed to slow down or stop the bus, and struck the back of a white 1998 Dodge Caravan that was accelerating from the light, the CHP reports.
The driver of the van, Tracy Allen Cox, 33, of Gilroy, was also returning to Gilroy from the athletic event.
A South Valley student on the bus, whose age was unknown, complained of head pain after the accident and was taken by ambulance to Kaiser-Santa Teresa Hospital in San Jose, according to the CHP. She was treated and released.
Cox, the driver of the van, and two juveniles also suffered injuries and were taken to nearby hospitals.
