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Bus among
6vehicles in accident
BY NICK G. MAHERAS
ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER
HIGH POINT – Six vehicles, including a bus carrying children,
slammed into each other in a chain-reaction traffic accident Sunday that
sent two people to the hospital for treatment.
About 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Deborah Dewey was standing at the Lexington Avenue
and N. Main Street
intersection wearing a large Wood-Armfield clearance
sale placard when she heard the first crash.
The placard and sunglasses
The school bus was filled with 31 or 32 Sunday school children.
may well have protected her from injury.
“It really shook me up,” she said. “It was like a shower of glass. I
got hit by glass, but it didn’t hurt me or anything.”
The bus belonged to Gospel Light Baptist Church of Kernersville,
according to Gerald Misere, the driver. It was
filled with 31 or 32 Sunday school children from the church.
“No kids on the bus were hurt,” said High Point police Capt. Steve Danford.
Three cars – a red Ford Mustang convertible, a maroon oldermodel Nissan Sentra and a
latemodel Toyota Scion – and the bus were involved
in the initial accident.
The woman driving the Sentra and the man
driving the Mustang were both taken to High Point Regional
Hospital by ambulance,
but police said their injuries were not life-threatening.
“We were sitting there (on E. Lexington Avenue) waiting on the light,
and, all of a sudden, bang, I get this noise in the side of the bus, and I
looked down, and there was this girl in this car (Scion),” Misere said. “It looked like she came across the intersection.”
Police were still investigating the wreck Sunday afternoon and had few
names or details ava i l abl e.
According to Dewey and police, there was another collision when a car
turning onto E. Lexington Avenue stopped and was rear-ended by another
vehicle.
Nobody was hurt in that wreck, though, and both cars were soon cleared
from the scene
nmaheras@hpe.com |888-3534
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