THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, April 20, 1996 TAG: 9604200346
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B3 EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA
SOURCE: BY PERRY PARKS, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: WEEKSVILLE LENGTH: Short : 41 lines
Sixteen Weeksville Elementary School students were taken to Albemarle Hospital with minor injuries Friday afternoon after their school bus and a car collided on Route 34.
Parents of seven other children drove them to the hospital to be examined.
``They've all been examined and discharged except one, and she's getting ready to go now,'' Charlotte Hoelzel, an assistant administrator at the hospital, said a few hours after the accident.
The driver of the car, 19-year-old Angela Davis of Quantico, Va., also was treated and released, Hoelzel said.
The accident occurred at 3 p.m. when the 1993 Hyundai driven by Davis legally passed the bus while heading toward Elizabeth City.
``Shortly after that pass, the car attempted to turn, and the bus hit it,'' said North Carolina State Trooper G.A. Smith.
Davis was cited for careless and reckless driving, Smith said. The bus driver, Annie Hinton Green, 47, of Elizabeth City, was not cited.
Assistant Superintendent Carlton Thornton and other school officials went to the scene. Several anxious parents also stood by as rescue workers tended to the children.
``We really didn't have any serious injuries,'' said Dean Schaan, director of Pasquotank-Camden Emergency Medical Services, describing mostly head, neck and back pains and some dizziness among the children. ``Most of our thing is precautions.''
The Pasquotank County Sheriff's Department and Weeksville Volunteer Fire Department also were on the scene, where traffic was tied up for nearly two hours around Crocker Hill Road.
KEYWORDS: ACCIDENT TRAFFIC SCHOOL BUS INJURIES by CNB