MINUTES. ALL RIGHT, KIM, THANK YOU. IN OCALA, TWO PEOPLE GOT HURT AFTER A PICKUP TRUCK CRASHED INTO A SCHOOL BUS THAT THEN CRASHED INTO A HOME. TAKE A LOOK AT THE DAMAGE AT THAT HOUSE ON 31ST AVENUE ROAD IN MARION OAKS STATE TROOPERS SAY A PICKUP TRUCK RAN A STOP SIGN AND CRASHED INTO A SCHOOL BUS THAT SENT THE BUS INTO THE HOUSE. BOTH THE PICKUP DRIVER AND THE BUS DRIVER WERE HURT, BUT THEY’RE EXPECTED TO BE
Crash sends school bus into house in Marion County
A Marion County school bus crashed into a home Wednesday morning after officials say a pickup truck ran a stop sign. Florida Highway Patrol said the crash happened when the pickup truck driving southbound on SW 31st Avenue Road failed to stop at a stop sign at Marion Oaks Trail and hit the right side of the bus. The bus then collided with the home located on 31st Avenue Road, FHP said. Minor injuries were reported. No students were on the bus at the time of the crash, FHP said. An elderly couple was inside the home. Their son-in-law, Elvis Silberio, said they were home but did not get hurt. “They both in panic,” Silberio said. “Thank God nothing serious happened. I mean damage that can be fixed.”Silberio said a third resident in the home usually sleeps in the bedroom that crumbled after the bus crashed into it. says this could’ve had a very tragic ending because someone usually sleeps in that bedroom that is now crumbled into pieces. (HENDERSON0398 – ANNMARIE DELFINO, NEIGHBOR 00:35 – 00:40) “Praise God he was at work. Praise God, there were no children on that bus.”Marion County School District says the bus was heading to Horizon Academy at Marion Oaks to pick up students in summer school.The driver of the pickup truck was cited with a stop sign violation. No one was seriously hurt, but the school bus driver and an aide were checked at a hospital.(HENDERSON0398 – ANNMARIE DELFINO, NEIGHBOR 00:14 – 00:17) “I started to cry. You become – your neighbors become your family… (1:47 – 1:52) There’s so much speeding that goes on here. I mean it’s terrible. So much that I don’t even go out this way anymore.”In Marion County, Senait Gebregiorgis, WESH 2 News.}
A crash at an intersection sent a school bus into a house in Marion County on Wednesday morning, Florida Highway Patrol said.
It happened when a vehicle driving southbound on SW 31st Avenue Road failed to stop at a stop sign at Marion Oaks Trail and hit the right side of the bus.
The bus then collided with the home located on 31st Avenue Road, FHP said.
Minor injuries were reported. No students were on the bus at the time of the crash, FHP said.
